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Cellular automaton models provide simple minimal models to describe the salient features of many complex physical phenomena. In this article, I illustrate this with some examples: the sandpile model, Eulerian walkers model, and a model of fragmentation of ice sheet at termini of calving glaciers.
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Dhar, D. (2023). Modelling Physical Systems with Cellular Automata. In: Das, S., Martinez, G.J. (eds) Proceedings of Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology. ASCAT 2023. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1443. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0688-8_1
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