Influences of finite-size effects on the self-organized criticality of forest-fire model |
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Authors: | Weiguo Song Weicheng Fan Binghong Wang |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026 Hefei, China |
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Abstract: | The influences of finite-size effects on the self-organized criticality (SOC) of the traditional forest-fire model are investigated by means of a new method. The forest size is originally set to a value much greater than the correlation length of the forest. Finite-size effects are then studied by equally dividing the forest into more and more separate subsystems on condition that the forest size, igniting probability and planting probability are invariant. A new phenomenon, i.e. the finite-size effects with one-side frequency peak, is observed. The boundary between two neighboring subsystems can be regarded as a firebreak. The concept of 'separation ability' is introduced to represent the probability for the firebreak to block off the fire successfully. Restraining effects of separation ability on finite-size effects are analyzed. Finite-size effects and separation ability, as well as their relations are found to have practical importance to the actual forest-fire protection. |
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Keywords: | forest-fire model self-organized criticality cellular automata finite-size effects |
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