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Aggregation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature, encompassing out-of-equilibrium processes of fractal pattern formation, important in many areas of science and technology. Despite their simplicity, foundational models such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-31 J. R. Nicolás-Carlock , J. L. Carrillo-Estrada , V. Dossetti

In this paper, we analyze the scaling behavior of \emph{Diffusion Limited Aggregation} (DLA) simulated by Hastings-Levitov method. We obtain the fractal dimension of the clusters by direct analysis of the geometrical patterns in a good…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-21 F. Mohammadi , A. A. Saberi , S. Rouhani

We show that various surface parameters in two-dimensional diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) grow linearly with the number of particles. We find the ratio of the average length of the perimeter and the accessible perimeter of a DLA…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-19 A. A. Saberi

In this paper, we analyze the scaling properties of a model that has as limiting cases the diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) and the ballistic aggregation (BA) models. This model allows us to control the radial and angular scaling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-09 S. G. Alves , S. C. Ferreira

A generalized form of the Hastings and Levitov (HL) algorithm for simulation of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) restricted in a sector geometry is studied. It is found that this generalization with uniform measure produces "wedge-like"…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-09 F. Mohammadi , A. A. Saberi , S. Rouhani

Diffusion limited aggregation is studied from the perspective of computational complexity. A parallel algorithm is exhibited that requires a number of steps that scales as the depth of the tree defined by the cluster. The existence of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dan Tillberg , Jon Machta

Predicting urban growth is important for practical reasons, and also for the challenge it presents to theoretical frameworks for cluster dynamics. Recently, the model of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) has been applied to describe urban…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Hernan A. Makse , Shlomo Havlin , H. Eugene Stanley

Using stochastic conformal mapping techniques we study the patterns emerging from Laplacian growth with a power-law decaying threshold for growth $R_N^{-\gamma}$ (where $R_N$ is the radius of the $N-$ particle cluster). For $\gamma > 1$ the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. G. E. Hentschel , M. N. Popescu , F. Family

A recently proposed theory for diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA), which models this system as a random branched growth process, is reviewed. Like DLA, this process is stochastic, and ensemble averaging is needed in order to define…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Thomas C. Halsey , Katsuya Honda , Bertrand Duplantier

Results from a modified Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) model are presented. The modifications of the classical DLA model are in the attachment to the cluster rules and in the scheme of particle generation/killing. In the classical DLA…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Bogdan Ranguelov , Desislava Goranova , Vesselin Tonchev , Rositsa Yakimova

We study the following growth model on a regular d-ary tree. Points at distance n adjacent to the existing subtree are added with probabilities proportional to alpha^{-n}, where alpha<1 is a positive real parameter. The heights of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 MArtin T. Barlow , Robin Pemantle , Edwin A. Perkins

The diffusion limited aggregation model (DLA) and the more general dielectric breakdown model (DBM) are solved exactly in a two dimensional cylindrical geometry with periodic boundary conditions of width 2. Our approach follows the exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Boaz Kol , Amnon Aharony

We present a complete study of the Multiparticle Biased Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (MBDLA) model supplemented with surface difussion (SD), focusing on the relevance and effects of the latter transport mechanism. By comparing different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Mario Castro , Rodolfo Cuerno , Angel Sanchez , Francisco Dominguez-Adame

We expand upon a new theoretical framework for Diffusion Limited Aggregation and associated Dielectric Breakdown Models in two dimensions [R. C. Ball and E. Somfai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 135503 (2002)]. Key steps are understanding how these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Ball , E. Somfai

Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) is a model of fractal growth that was introduced in 1981 and had since attained a paradigmatic status due to its simplicity and its underlying role for a variety of pattern forming processes. Despite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benny Davidovich , Itamar Procaccia

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (DLA) is a cluster-growth model that consists in a set of particles that are sequentially aggregated over a two-dimensional grid. In this paper, we introduce a biased version of the DLA model, in which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Nicolas Bitar , Eric Goles , Pedro Montealegre

In the classical model of Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA), introduced by Witten and Sander, the process begins with a single particle cluster placed at the origin of a space, and then, one at a time, particles make a random walk from…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Colin Cooper , Alan Frieze

Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) is a model of fractal growth that had attained a paradigmatic status due to its simplicity and its underlying role for a variety of pattern forming processes. We present a convergent calculation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benny Davidovitch , Anders Levermann , Itamar Procaccia

Diffusion-driven patterns appear on curved surfaces in many settings, initiated by unstable modes of an underlying Laplacian operator. On a flat surface or perfect sphere, the patterns are degenerate, reflecting translational/rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Leyna Shackleton

Various model problems of ``transport-limited dissolution'' in two dimensions are analyzed using time-dependent conformal maps. For diffusion-limited dissolution (reverse Laplacian growth), several exact solutions are discussed for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Z. Bazant