A real-space cellular automaton laboratory

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
The AA. present the Real-Space Cellular Automaton Laboratory (ReSCAL), a powerful and versatile generator of 3D stochastic models. The aim of this software suite, released under a GNU licence, is to develop interdisciplinary research collaboration to investigate the dynamics of complex systems. The models in ReSCAL are essentially constructed from a small number of discrete states distributed on a cellular grid. An elementary cell is a real-space representation of the physical environment and pairs of nearest-neighbour cells are called doublets. Each individual physical process is associated with a set of doublet transitions and characteristic transition rates. Using a modular approach, a wide range of physical processes can be simulated and combined. The AA. then describe different ingredients of ReSCAL leading to applications in geomorphology : dune morphodynamics and landscape evolution. They also discuss how ReSCAL can be applied and developed across many disciplines in natural and human sciences.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Earth surface processes and landforms, issn : 0197-9337, 2014, vol. 39, n°. 1, p. 98-109, nombre de pages : 12, Références bibliographiques : 1 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Chichester, Wiley