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Self-organised criticality : theory, models, and characterisation /

"Giving a detailed overview of the subject, this book takes in the results and methods that have arisen since the term 'self-organised criticality' was coined twenty years ago. Providing an overview of numerical and analytical methods, from their theoretical foundation to the actual a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pruessner, Gunnar
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Scaling; 3. Experiments and observations; 4. Deterministic sandpiles; 5. Dissipative models; 6. Stochastic sandpiles; 7. Numerical methods and data analysis; 8. Analytical results; 9. Mechanisms of SOC; 10. Summary and discussion; Index.