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Physics Letters A

Volume 147, Issues 5–6, 16 July 1990, Pages 297-300
Physics Letters A

A forest-fire model and some thoughts on turbulence

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Abstract

In the context of a forest-fire model we demonstrate critical scaling behavior in a “turbulent” non-equilibrium system. Energy is injected uniformly, and dissipated on a fractal. Critical exponents are estimated by means of a Monte Carlo renormalization- group calculation.

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