Abstract

Self-organized critical system in turbulent fluid environment is studied with the renormalization group analysis. The system is modelled by the anisotropic stochastic differential equation for a coarse-grained field proposed by Hwa and Kardar [Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1813 (1989)]. The turbulent motion of the environment is described by the anisotropic d-dimensional velocity ensemble based on the one introduced by Avellaneda and Majda [Commun. Math. Phys. 131, 381 (1990)] and modified to include dependence on time (finite correlation time). Renormalization group analysis reveals three universality classes (types of critical behavior) differentiated by the parameters of the system.

Highlights

  • The phenomenon of self-organized criticality (SOC) is observed in numerous open nonequilibrium biological, ecological and social systems with dissipative transport [1, 2]

  • While SOC is usually described by discrete models, the authors of [3] proposed a continuous anisotropic model, i.e., a differential stochastic equation for a smoothed field of the deviation from the average height of the sand profile

  • The paper is organized as follows: the field theoretic formulation of the model is given in Sec. 2; Sec. 3 is devoted to the remormalization of the model while the fixed points of the renormalization group (RG) equation and corresponding universality classes are discussed in Sec. 4; Sec. 5 is reserved to a brief conclusion

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Introduction

The phenomenon of self-organized criticality (SOC) is observed in numerous open nonequilibrium biological, ecological and social systems with dissipative transport [1, 2]. The model describes a running sandpile with a constant preferred transport direction. This is the reason why we want to consider the critical behavior under the influence of the turbulent flow. The replacement ∂t → ∇t = ∂t + vk∂k introduces a coupling with the velocity field u(x) The latter is chosen in the form u(x) = v(t, x⊥) n. The model (1) – (2) with Gaussian δ-correlated in time (rapid-changing) velocity ensemble has been studied in [12]. The paper is organized as follows: the field theoretic formulation of the model is given in Sec. 2; Sec. 3 is devoted to the remormalization of the model while the fixed points of the renormalization group (RG) equation and corresponding universality classes are discussed in Sec. 4; Sec. 5 is reserved to a brief conclusion

Field theoretic formulation of the model
Renormalization of the model
Fixed points and scaling regimes
Conclusion

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