Models and applications
The author gives a survey of different models of growth (the ballistic growth model, the diffusion-limited aggregation model, the cluster-cluster aggregation model) and then discusses their properties obtained by computer simulations or analytical calculations. The ballistic growth is proved not to be fractal in the usual sense: the bulk density of ballistic aggregate grown in the deposition geometry achieves a constant value. Nevertheless the ballistic aggregation surface has scaling properties. The surface roughness \(\sigma\) is expressed asymptotically in terms of the deposition mean height \(H\) and the width \(L\) of the \((d-1)\)-dimensional substrate in such a way: \[ \sigma =L^{\alpha}, H >> L^z ; \;=H^{\beta}, H << L^z. \] Here \(\alpha, \beta, z\) are scaling exponents which satisfy the following equalities: \(\alpha=\beta z\), \(\alpha + z = 2\). For the trivial case of uncoupled ballistic growth \(\alpha\) is undefined, \(\beta\) = 1/2; in two dimensions \(\alpha = 1/2\), \(\beta = 1/3\) ; in three dimensions \(\alpha = 0.35\), \(\beta = 0.21\). The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation (1986) is shown to describe ballistic growth in continuous limit. The diffusion-limited aggregate is proved to be a self-similar fractal. The fractal dimension \(D\) is defined by the equality \(D = \frac{\ln\rho}{\ln M}\), where \(\rho\) is the mean radius and \(M\) the mass of the cluster. The dependence \(D(d)\) of the fractal dimension \(D\) on the physical space dimension \(d\) has the following values: \(D(2) = 1.7\), \(D(3) = 2.5\). A fundamental reason for the fractal shape of the diffusion-limited cluster is afflicted with a Mullins-Sekerka growth instability (1957). It appears that in order to stabilize the diffusive growth we need some kind of anisotropy. The author applies these results to the electrochemical deposition process. The cluster-cluster aggregation model appears to belong to another universality class than previous ones. The fractal dimensions for cluster-cluster aggregates are \(D(2) = 1.43\), \(D(3) = 1.75\). The author has appended to the paper a program for the construction of diffusion-limited aggregates and a list of problems. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0974.00042].
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- Exotic marginal fractals from hierarchical random deposition
- Simulation of the fractal growth in the restricted geometry
- Modeling of silica sol--gel thin films with ballistic aggregation
- Computer simulation of fractal growth via a 2D-MECA percolative system representing an extended nutrient releasing source (NRS)
- Deposition, diffusion, and aggregation on small-world networks: a model for nanostructure growth on the defective substrate
- Dynamic scaling for a competitive growth process: Random deposition versus ballistic deposition
- Distribution of surface peaks in 1+1 and 2+1 ballistic growth models
- On diffusion limited deposition
- Fractals and diffusive growth
- Scaling arguments and diffusive growth
- Phenomenology of growth
- DEPOSITION PROBLEMS
- Geometrical properties of aggregates with tunable fractal dimension
- Properties of Large Eden Clusters in the Plane
- POWER LAW RELAXATION OF PERIMETER LENGTH OF FRACTAL AGGREGATES
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- Percolation-like transition in DLA with two species
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1786535 (Why is no real title available?)
- Models of Technologies
- MODELS AND THEORIES
- Ballistic deposition on a planar strip
- On the radial growth of ballistic aggregation and other aggregation models
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