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View SchemaTraveling wave solutions in the Burridge-Knopoff model
| Authors | C. B. Muratov |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9901003 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9901003 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.59.3847 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. E 59, 3847 (1999). |
Abstract
The slider-block Burridge-Knopoff model with the Coulomb friction law is studied as an excitable medium. It is shown that in the continuum limit the system admits solutions in the form of the self-sustained shock waves traveling with constant speed which depends only on the amount of the accumulated stress in front of the wave. For a wide class of initial conditions the behavior of the system is determined by these shock waves and the dynamics of the system can be expressed in terms of their motion. The solutions in the form of the periodic wave trains and sources of counter-propagating waves are analyzed. It is argued that depending on the initial conditions the system will either tend to synchronize or exhibit chaotic spatiotemporal behavior.
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