EXPERIMENTAL-EVIDENCE FOR SELF-AFFINE ROUGHENING IN A MICROMODEL OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

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CZIROK, A [1 ]
SOMFAI, E [1 ]
VICSEK, T [1 ]
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[1] INST TECH PHYS, H-1325 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2154
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O4 [物理学];
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An experimental evidence for kinetic roughening in a micromodel of mountain ranges is presented. We have observed that during the watering of an initially smooth ridge made of a mixture of silica sand and earthy soil the surface, evolves into a shape analogous to actual mountain profiles with self-affine geometry. For the exponents describing respectively the temporal and the spatial scaling of the surface width beta almost-equal-to 0.9 and alpha=0.78 +/- 0.05 have been obtained. The latter value is in very good agreement with alpha=0.8 +/- 0.1 we have calculated for genuine transect profiles.
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