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Growth and shape formation in crowded multicellular assemblies arise from the interplay of chemical gradients, single-cell expansion and mechanical interactions, making it essential to understand how these processes jointly shape collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-02 Ilias-Marios Sarris , Ramin Golestianian , Philip Bittihn

The Laplacian Growth (LG) model is known as a universality class of scale-free aggregation models in two dimensions, characterized by classical integrability and featuring finite-time boundary singularity formation. A discrete counterpart,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Razvan Teodorescu

A parallel algorithm for ``diffusion-limited aggregation'' (DLA) is described and analyzed from the perspective of computational complexity. The dynamic exponent z of the algorithm is defined with respect to the probabilistic parallel…

comp-gas · Physics 2016-08-31 K. Moriarty , J. Machta , R. Greenlaw

We have combined the original diffusion-limited aggregation model introduced by Witten and Sander with the surface thermodynamics of the growing solid aggregate. The theory is based on the consideration of the surface chemical potential as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladislav A. Bogoyavlenskiy , Natasha A. Chernova

Two-dimensional structures grown with Witten and Sander algorithm are investigated. We analyze clusters grown off-lattice and clusters grown with antenna method with $N_{fp}=3,4,5,6,7$ and 8 allowed growth directions. With the help of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Anton Yu. Menshutin , Lev. N. Shchur

Generating visual layouts is an essential ingredient of graphic design. The ability to condition layout generation on a partial subset of component attributes is critical to real-world applications that involve user interaction. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Elad Levi , Eli Brosh , Mykola Mykhailych , Meir Perez

We revisit the diffusive instability in dusty disks that arises when the dust mass diffusivity and/or viscosity decreases sufficiently steeply with increasing dust density. Our updated model includes an incompressible, viscous gas that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Konstantin Gerbig , Min-Kai Lin

Inside cells of living organisms, actin filaments and microtubules self-assemble and dissemble dynamically by incorporating actin or tubulin from the cell plasma or releasing it into their tips' surroundings. Such reaction-diffusion systems…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Johannes Pausch , Gunnar Pruessner

Computer simulations are used to generate two-dimensional diffusion-limited deposits of dipoles. The structure of these deposits is analyzed by measuring some global quantities: the density of the deposit and the lateral correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Tasinkevych , J. M. Tavares , F. de los Santos

Diffusion-limited aggregation has a natural generalization to the "$\eta$-models", in which $\eta$ random walkers must arrive at a point on the cluster surface in order for growth to occur. It has recently been proposed that in spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas C. Halsey

We simulated irreversible aggregation of non-interacting particles and of particles interacting via repulsive and attractive potentials explicitly implementing the rotational diffusion of aggregating clusters. Our study confirms that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-26 Swetlana Jungblut , Jan-Ole Joswig , Alexander Eychmüller

I present a first-principles theory of diffusion-limited aggregation in two dimensions. A renormalized mean-field approximation gives the form of the unstable manifold for branch competition, following the method of Halsey and Leibig [Phys.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Thomas C. Halsey

The effect of diffusively correlated spatial fluctuations on the proliferation-extinction transition of autocatalytic agents is investigated numerically. Reactants adaptation to spatio-temporal active regions is shown to lead to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sasi Moalem , Nadav M. Shnerb

The process by which one may take a discrete model of a biophysical process and construct a continuous model based on it is of mathematical interest as well as being of practical use. In this paper, we first study the singular limit of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Lianzhang Bao , Zhengfang Zhou

We obtain the harmonic measure of diffusion-limited aggregate (DLA) clusters using a biased random-walk sampling technique which allows us to measure probabilities of random walkers hitting sections of clusters with unprecedented accuracy;…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Adams , L. M. Sander , E. Somfai , R. M. Ziff

The transport of individual entities through interconnected structures is a process of practical relevance both in biology and technology. Examples are given by diffusive dynamics of molecules in porous structures. In soft environments,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-09 Jakob Mihatsch , Andreas M. Menzel

Evolution of a system of diffusing and proliferating mortal reactants is analyzed in the presence of randomly moving catalysts. While the continuum description of the problem predicts reactant extinction as the average growth rate becomes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 N. M. Shnerb , E. Bettelheim , Y. Louzoun , O. Agam , S. Solomon

We develop a technique for probing harmonic measure of the diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) cluster surface with the variable size particle and generate one thousand clusters with 50 million particles using original off-lattice…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Yu. Menshutin , L. N. Shchur , V. M. Vinokur

We consider diffusion-limited annihilating systems with mobile $A$-particles and stationary $B$-particles placed throughout a graph. Mutual annihilation occurs whenever an $A$-particle meets a $B$-particle. Such systems, when ran in…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Riti Bahl , Philip Barnet , Tobias Johnson , Matthew Junge

We repeat the numerical experiments for diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) and show that there is a potentially infinite set of conserved quantities for the long time asymptotics. We connect these observations with the exact integrability…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark B. Mineev-Weinstein , Ronnie Mainieri