Geomorphology
In geomorphology, descriptions in terms of differential equations are useful because
they allow to express different relationships among various parameters.
Nevertheless, in a vast majority of cases, these relationships are not well defined, there
is a large variety of theoretical formalisms, the role of heterogeneities is not
taken into account and numerical procedures cannot handle a wide range of
length scales.
Then, cellular automaton (CA) approach can be described as an alternative
which focus on self organization and the emergence of structure without
taking into
account all the diversity of the small scale physical and chemical
properties. In particular, we propose a new approach and more conceptual approach that can
be described as a Real-Space Cellular Automaton:
Applications include
