Directed percolation depinning models: Evolution equations

L. A. BRAUNSTEIN; R. C. BUCETA; N. GIOVAMBATTISTA; A. DÍAZ-SÁNCHEZ

PHYSICAL REVIEW E - STATISTICAL PHYSICS, PLASMAS, FLUIDS AND RELATED INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS

The American Physical Society

Lugar: New York; Año: 1999 vol. 59 p. 4243 - 4247

1063-651X

We present the microscopic equation for the growing interface with quenched noise for the model first presented by Buldyrev et al. [Phys. Rev. A 45, R8313 (1992)]. The evolution equation for the height, the mean height, and the roughness are reached in a simple way. The microscopic equation allows us to express these equations in two contributions: the contact and the local one. We compare these two contributions with the ones obtained for the Tang and Leschhorn model [Phys. Rev A 45, R8309 (1992)] by Braunstein et al. [Physica A, 266, 308 (1999)]. Even when the microscopic mechanisms are quiet different in both models, the two contributions are qualitatively similar. An interesting result is that the diffusion contribution, in the Tang and Leschhorn model, and the contact one, in the Buldyrev model, leads to an increase of the roughness near the criticality.