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We introduce a lattice gas model of cluster growth via the diffusive aggregation of particles in a closed system obeying a local, deterministic, microscopically reversible dynamics. This model roughly corresponds to placing the irreversible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Raissa M. D'Souza , Norman H. Margolus

We develop a general theory of transport-limited aggregation phenomena occurring on curved surfaces, based on stochastic iterated conformal maps and conformal projections to the complex plane. To illustrate the theory, we use stereographic…

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

Several models based on the diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) model were proposed and their scaling properties explored by computational and theoretical approaches. In this paper, we consider a new extension of the on-lattice DLA model in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Ferreira

We study discontinuous percolation transitions (PT) in the diffusion-limited cluster aggregation model of the sol-gel transition as an example of real physical systems, in which the number of aggregation events is regarded as the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Y. S. Cho , B. Kahng

A minimal model of ionic aggregation in concentrated ZnCl$_2$ is developed, guided by molecular dynamics simulations with a machine-learned potential. It explicitly incorporates solvent-site depletion, correlated chloride binding, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-23 Alexei V. Tkachenko , Chuntian Cao , Amy C. Marschilok , Deyu Lu

Two-dimensional dendritic growth due to solute precipitation was simulated using a phase-field model reported earlier [Z. Xu and P. Meakin, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 014705 (2008)]. It was shown that diffusion-limited precipitation due to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin

Based on Brownian Dynamics computer simulations in two dimensions we investigate aggregation scenarios of colloidal particles with directional interactions induced by multiple external fields. To this end we propose a model which allows…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-08 Florian Kogler , Orlin D. Velev , Carol K. Hall , Sabine H. L. Klapp

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

In this paper, we present results of extensive Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) with a seed placed on an attractive plane as a simple model in connection with the electrical double layers. We compute the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-31 S. H. Ebrahimnazhad Rahbari , A. A. Saberi

We study the structure and the dynamics in the formation of irreversible gels by means of molecular dynamics simulation of a model system where the gelation transition is due to the random percolation of permanent bonds between neighboring…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Abete , A. de Candia , E. Del Gado , A. Fierro , A. Coniglio

We here discuss the results of 3d MonteCarlo simulations of a minimal lattice model for gelling systems. We focus on the dynamics, investigated by means of the time autocorrelation function of the density fluctuations and the particle mean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Del Gado , A. Fierro , L. de Arcangelis , A. Coniglio

Results of systematic molecular dynamics studies of ethanol-water mixtures, over the entire concentration range, were reported previously to agree with experimental X-ray diffraction data. These simulated systems are analyzed in this work…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-14 Orsolya Gereben , László Pusztai

We present a systematic study of dynamical heterogeneity in a model for permanent gels, upon approaching the gelation threshold. We find that the fluctuations of the self intermediate scattering function are increasing functions of time,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-19 T. Abete , A. de Candia , E. Del Gado , A. Fierro , A. Coniglio

A theoretical and numerically study of dynamical properties in the sol-gel transition is presented. In particular, the complex phenomenology observed experimentally and numerically in gelling systems is reproduced in the framework of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Fierro , T. Abete , A. Coniglio

Internal Diffusion Limited Aggregation (IDLA) is a model that describes the growth of a random aggregate of particles from the inside out. Shellef proved that IDLA processes on supercritical percolation clusters of integer-lattices fill…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Hugo Duminil-Copin , Cyrille Lucas , Ariel Yadin , Amir Yehudayoff

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

Colloidal gels formed by strongly attractive particles at low particle volume fractions are composed of space-spanning networks of uniformly sized clusters. We study the thermal fluctuations of the clusters using differential dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-31 Jae Hyung Cho , Irmgard Bischofberger

Internal Diffusion Limited Aggregation is an interacting particle system that describes the growth of a random cluster governed by the boundary harmonic measure seen from an internal point. Our paper studies IDLA in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ driven by…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Amine Asselah , Vittoria Silvestri , Lorenzo Taggi

Internal diffusion limited aggregation (IDLA) is a random aggregation model on a graph $G$, whose clusters are formed by random walks started in the origin (some fixed vertex) and stopped upon visiting a previously unvisited site. On the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Nico Heizmann

Using computer simulations, we identify the mechanisms causing aggregation and structural arrest of colloidal suspensions interacting with a short-ranged attraction at moderate and high densities. Two different non-ergodicity transitions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio M. Puertas , Matthias Fuchs , Michael E. Cates