Kinetic roughening in slow combustion of paper

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 79, issue 8, pp. 1515-1518

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We present results from an experimental study on the kinetic roughening of slow combustion fronts in paper sheets. The sheets were positioned inside a combustion chamber and ignited from the top to minimize convection effects. The emerging fronts were videotaped and digitized to obtain their time-dependent heights. The data were analyzed by calculating two-point correlation functions in the saturated regime. Both the growth and roughening exponents were determined and found consistent with the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, in agreement with recent theoretical work.

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Maunuksela, J, Myllys, M, Timonen, J, Kähkönen, O-P, Provatas, N, Alava, M J & Ala-Nissilä, T 1997, 'Kinetic roughening in slow combustion of paper', Physical Review Letters, vol. 79, no. 8, pp. 1515-1518. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1515