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Aggregation Driven by a Localized Source

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-09 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study aggregation driven by a localized source of monomers. The densities become stationary and have algebraic tails far away from the source. We show that in a model with mass-independent reaction rates and diffusion coefficients, the density of monomers decays as rβ(d)r^{-\beta(d)} in dd dimensions. The decay exponent has irrational values in physically relevant dimensions: β(3)=(17+1)/2\beta(3)=(\sqrt{17}+1)/2 and β(2)=8\beta(2)=\sqrt{8}. We also study Brownian coagulation with a localized source and establish the behavior of the total cluster density and the total number of of clusters in the system. The latter quantity exhibits a logarithmic growth with time.

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@article{arxiv.1503.02749,
  title  = {Aggregation Driven by a Localized Source},
  author = {P. L. Krapivsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02749},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages

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