Roughness exponents: A paradox resolved
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 48 (2) , 1576-1578
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.48.1576
Abstract
The spatial scaling behavior of a self-affine surface is parametrized with what is commonly referred to as a ‘‘roughness’’ exponent. The paradox of whether large or small values of this exponent correspond to ‘‘rougher’’ surfaces is resolved here.Keywords
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