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Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) has served for forty years as a paradigmatic example for the creation of fractal growth patterns. In spite of thousands of references no exact result for the fractal dimension $D$ of DLA is known. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-17 Eviatar B. Procaccia , Itamar Procaccia

A limited mobility nonequilibrium solid-on-solid dynamical model for kinetic surface growth is introduced as a simple description for the morphological evolution of a growing interface under random vapor deposition and surface diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , P. Punyindu

We discuss a simple model of particles hopping in one dimension with attractive interactions. Taking a hydrodynamic limit in which the interaction strength increases with the system size, we observe the formation of multiple clusters of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-05 Matthew Burman , Daniel Carpenter , Robert L. Jack

A continuum theory is used to predict scaling laws for the morphological relaxation of crystal surfaces in two independent space dimensions. The goal is to unify previously disconnected experimental observations of decaying surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Dionisios Margetis

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

We study the generalized diffusion-limited aggregates (DLA), with two seeds placed at distance d lattice units and investigate the probability p(d) that the patterns generated from those seeds get connected. In this model, one can vary the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Deepak N. Bankar , P. M. Gade , A. V. Limaye , A. G. Banpurkar

We present a Molecular Dynamics study of large Lennard-Jones clusters evolving on a crystalline surface. The static and the dynamic properties of the cluster are described. We find that large clusters can diffuse rapidly, as experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Pierre Deltour , Jean-Louis Barrat , Pablo Jensen

Using molecular dynamic simulations we study a waterlike model confined between two fixed hydrophobic plates. The system is tested for density, diffusion and structural anomalous behavior and compared with the bulk results. Within the range…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Leandro Batirolla Krott , Marcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa

Aggregation of ice crystals is a key process governing precipitation. Individual ice crystals exhibit considerable diversity of shape, and a wide range of physical processes could influence their aggregation; despite this we show that a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 C. D. Westbrook , R. C. Ball , P. R. Field , A. J. Heymsfield

Real-world data generation often involves complex inter-dependencies among instances, violating the IID-data hypothesis of standard learning paradigms and posing a challenge for uncovering the geometric structures for learning desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Wentao Zhao , Yixuan He , David Wipf , Junchi Yan

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

Given a large ensemble of interacting particles, driven by nonlocal interactions and localized repulsion, the mean-field limit leads to a class of nonlocal, nonlinear partial differential equations known as aggregation-diffusion equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Jose A. Carrillo , Katy Craig , Yao Yao

Spontaneous liquid-liquid phase separation is commonly understood in terms of phenomenological mean-field theories. These theories correctly predict the structural features of the fluid at sufficiently long time scales and wavelengths.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-11 Charley Schaefer , Stefan Paquay , Tom C. B. McLeish

A multi-phase-field model for the description of the discontinuous precipitation reaction is formulated which takes into account surface diffusion along grain boundaries and interfaces as well as volume diffusion. Simulations reveal that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-04 Lynda Amirouche , Mathis Plapp

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

Experimental and modeling/simulation studies of phase equilibrium and growth morphologies of novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) mixtures of PS (polystyrene) and liquid crystals that exhibit a direct isotropic/smectic-A (lamellar)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Ezequiel R. Soule , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir , Alejandro D. Rey

This article concerns the correspondence between thermodynamics and the morphology of simple fluids in terms of clusters. Definitions of clusters providing a geometric interpretation of the liquid-gas phase transition are reviewed with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Sator

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 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

The incorporation of particle inertia into the usual mean field theory for particle aggregation and fragmentation in fluid flows is still an unsolved problem. We therefore suggest an alternative approach that is based on the dynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-03-08 Jens C. Zahnow , Joeran Maerz , Ulrike Feudel