TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling forest fire by a paper-burning experiment, a realization of the interface growth mechanism
AU - Zhang, Jun
AU - Zhang, Y. C.
AU - Alstrøm, P.
AU - Levinsen, M. T.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to M.H. Jensen, M. Olsen, D. Sornette and D. Spasojevi6 for suggestions and support, and especially B. Christiansen for help in data analysis. We also acknowledge financial support from the Danish Research Academy, the Daloon Foundation, and the Carlsberg foundation.
PY - 1992/11/1
Y1 - 1992/11/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90050-Z
DO - 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90050-Z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44049110445
SN - 0378-4371
VL - 189
SP - 383
EP - 389
JO - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
JF - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
IS - 3-4
ER -