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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jaehyuk Choi , Darren Crowdy , Martin Z. Bazant

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 identify sources of systematic error in traditional simulations of the Witten-Sander model of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) on a square lattice. We present an algorithm that reduces these biases to below $10^{-12}$. We grow…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-07-10 Yen Lee Loh

Diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) is a well studied phenomenon in which diffusing particles cumulatively aggregate on a starting fixed seed point, forming a pattern which is fractal in structure. Here we report an interesting DLA process…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-21 Suvrajyoti Chatterjee , Saba Firoze , Tabish Qureshi

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 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 an attempt to find generic features on the fractal growth of Au films deposited on Ru(001), a simple simulation model based on irreversible diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) is discussed. Highly irregular two-dimensional dentritic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Canessa , A. Calmetta

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

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

The creation of fractal clusters by diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) is studied by using iterated stochastic conformal maps following the method proposed recently by Hastings and Levitov. The object of interest is the function…

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

A finite size effect in the probing of the harmonic measure in simulation of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) growth is investigated. We introduce a variable size of probe particles, to estimate harmonic measure and extract the fractal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-02 Anton Yu. Menshutin , Lev N. Shchur , Valery M. Vinokour

We measure the multiscaling behavior of large off-lattice diffusion limited aggregates (DLA). In contrast to previous studies we now find a continuous dependence of the multiscaling dimensions $D(x)$ on the relative distance $x=r/R_g$ to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Peter Ossadnik

The method of iterated conformal maps for the study of Diffusion Limited Aggregates (DLA) is generalized to the study of Laplacian Growth Patterns and related processes. We emphasize the fundamental difference between these processes: DLA…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felipe Barra , Benny Davidovitch , Itamar Procaccia

Cylindrical lattice diffusion limited aggregation (DLA), with a narrow width N, is solved for site-sticking conditions using a Markovian matrix method (which was previously developed for the bond-sticking case). This matrix contains the…

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

Cylindrical lattice Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA), with a narrow width N, is solved using a Markovian matrix method. This matrix contains the probabilities that the front moves from one configuration to another at each growth step,…

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

For a class of aggregation models on the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\geq 2$, in which clusters are formed by particles arriving one after the other and sticking irreversibly where they first hit the cluster, including the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Tillmann Bosch , Steffen Winter

In this work, the transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation models was revisited using a model in which biased random walks simulate the particle trajectories. The bias is controlled by a parameter $\lambda$, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. C. Ferreira , S. G. Alves , A. Faissal Brito , J. G. Moreira

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