Modeling forest fire by a paper-burning experiment, a realization of the interface growth mechanism

Jun Zhang; Y. C. Zhang; P. Alstrøm; M. T. Levinsen

doi:10.1016/0378-4371(92)90050-Z

Modeling forest fire by a paper-burning experiment, a realization of the interface growth mechanism

Jun Zhang, Y. C. Zhang, P. Alstrøm, M. T. Levinsen

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We present an experiment on the propagation front of a flameless fire on a thin piece of paper. We find that fire fronts on a piece of paper follow quite well self-affine scaling statistics, with the roughening exponent χ around 0.70, well above the value 1 2 in the theoretical interface growth model using Gaussian noise. This discrepancy may be due to an anomalously singular behavior of the noise distribution, consistent with some recent studies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	383-389
Number of pages	7
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	189
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(92)90050-Z
State	Published - Nov 1 1992

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