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A simple model of irreversible aggregation under differential sedimentation of particles in a fluid is presented. The structure of the aggregates produced by this process is found to feed back on the dynamics in such a way as to stabilise…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. D. Westbrook , R. C. Ball , P. R. Field , A. J. Heymsfield

We employ the recently introduced conformal iterative construction of Diffusion Limited Aggregates (DLA) to study the multifractal properties of the harmonic measure. The support of the harmonic measure is obtained from a dynamical process…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Benny Davidovich , Itamar Procaccia

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

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

We present and study the Pool model in $\mathbb{R}^2$, a rotationally symmetric analogue of Multi-Particle Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (MDLA), in which particles ("droplets") perform continuous-time random walks and are absorbed upon…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Zhenhao Cai , Eviatar B. Procaccia , Yuan Zhang

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

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

Aligning self-propelled particles undergo a nonequilibrium flocking transition from apolar to polar phases as their interactions become stronger. We propose a thermodynamically consistent lattice model, in which the internal state of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Karel Proesmans , Gianmaria Falasco , Atul Tanaji Mohite , Massimiliano Esposito , Étienne Fodor

We propose a simple model of columnar growth through {\it diffusion limited aggregation} (DLA). Consider a graph $G_N\times\N$, where the basis has $N$ vertices $G_N:=\{1,\dots,N\}$, and two vertices $(x,h)$ and $(x',h')$ are adjacent if…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-24 A. Asselah , E. Cirillo , E. Scoppola , B. Scoppola

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

We build the iDLA cluster using drifted random walks, and study the limiting shapes they exhibit, with the help of sandpile models. For constant drift, the normalised cluster converges to a canonical shape S, which can be termed a true heat…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Cyrille Lucas

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

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

A microscopic model of the effect of unbinding in diffusion limited aggregation based on a cellular automata approach is presented. The geometry resembles electrochemical deposition - ``ions'' diffuse at random from the top of a container…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 G. J. Ackland , E. S. Tweedie

We study the fractal structure of Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (DLA) clusters on the square lattice by extensive numerical simulations (with clusters having up to $10^8$ particles). We observe that DLA clusters undergo strongly anisotropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 Denis S. Grebenkov , Dmitry Beliaev

Internal diffusion-limited aggregation (IDLA) is a stochastic growth model on a graph $G$ which describes the formation of a random set of vertices growing from the origin (some fixed vertex) of $G$. Particles start at the origin and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Joe P. Chen , Wilfried Huss , Ecaterina Sava-Huss , Alexander Teplyaev

The basic science responsible for the fascinating shapes of ice crystals and snowflakes is still not understood. Insufficient knowledge of the interaction potentials and the lack of relevant experimental access to the growth process are to…

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 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

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