Hydrodynamic behaviour of an Abelian Sandpile Model with Laplacian rules

Abstract: We present a sandpile model, in which the instability of a site is determined also by the variables in a neighbourhood. This is a modification of the Abelian Sandpile Model, in which abelianity is preserved: it shares several mathematical properties of the original abelian model, while producing a more realistic dynamics. We show how our model presents interesting hydrodynamic features.