Analytical properties of ultradiscrete Burgers equation and rule-184 cellular automaton. (English) Zbl 0981.37028
Summary: We propose an ultradiscrete Burgers equation of which all the variables are discrete. The equation is derived from a discrete Burgers equation under an ultradiscrete limit and reduces to an ultradiscrete diffusion equation through the Cole-Hopf transformation. Moreover, it becomes a cellular automaton (CA) under appropriate conditions and is identical to rule-184 CA in a specific case. We show shock wave solutions and asymptotic behaviours of the CA exactly via the diffusion equation. Finally, we propose a particle model expressed by the CA and discuss a mean flux of particles.
MSC:
37K10 | Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) |
37B15 | Dynamical aspects of cellular automata |