Entropy production and self-organized (sub)criticality in earthquake dynamics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1910, 2010, Pages 131-144

  Main, Ian G ^a   Naylor, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Maximum entropy production; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); EARTHQUAKES; ENTROPY; NUMERICAL METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; ELASTIC STRAIN; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; MACROSCOPIC STRAINS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; NATURAL EARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODELS; POWER LAW SCALINGS; POWER-LAW RHEOLOGY; RUPTURE AREAS; SELF-ORGANIZED; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; STRAIN FIELDS; STRESS FIELD; SUBCRITICAL STATE; TECTONIC FORCING;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 73849096976     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0206     Document Type: Article

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