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The growth of a crystal is usually determined by its surface. Many factors influence the growth dynamics. Energy barriers associated with the presence of steps most often decide about the emerging pattern. The height and type of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-08 Marta Anna Chabowska , Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur

Simulating marine sponge growth helps marine biologists analyze, measure, and predict the effects that the marine environment has on marine sponges, and vice versa. This paper describes a way to simulate and grow geometric models of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Joshua O'Hagan , Andrew Chalmers , Taehyun Rhee

Chirality plays a crucial role in determining the structure of many systems in nature. Twisted or helical aggregates as a consequence of self-assembly can be seen in many biological and synthetic materials. Despite extensive theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-27 Sayantan Mondal , Jayashree Saha

Morphogenesis of complex body shapes is reproducible despite the noise inherent in the underlying morphogenetic processes. However, how these morphogenetic processes work together to achieve this reproducibility remains unclear. Here, we…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-24 Dominic K Devlin , Austen RD Ganley , Nobuto Takeuchi

A \emph{fractal} is an object exhibiting complexity at arbitrarily small scales. In order to study and characterise fractals, one is often interested in quantifying how they fill up space on small scales. This gives rise to various notions…

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Patterns of convection in internally heated, self-gravitating rotating spherical fluid shells are investigated through numerical simulations. While turbulent states are of primary interest in planetary and stellar applications the present…

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We investigate through direct molecular mechanics calculations the geometrical properties of hydrocarbon mantles subjected to percolation disorder. We show that the structures of mantles generated at the critical percolation point have a…

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Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Borgani

In the present article, the main attention is given to fractal sets whose elements have certain restrictions on using digits or combinations of digits in own nega-P-representation. Topological, metric, and fractal properties of images of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Symon Serbenyuk

We report a new approach to achieve growth of highly crystalline nickel nanoparticles over an extended range of sizes (up to 100 nm in diameter) and time scales (up to several hours) by diffusional transport of constituent atoms. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-23 Igor Sevonkaev , Vladimir Privman , Dan Goia

We have built a new kind of manifolds which leads to an alternative new geometrical space. The study of the nowhere differentiable functions via a family of mean functions leads to a new characterization of this category of functions. A…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Faycal Ben Adda

The structures formation of the Universe appears as if it were a classically self-similar random process at all astrophysical scales. An agreement is demonstrated for the present hypotheses of segregation with a size of astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Iovane , E. Laserra , F. S. Tortoriello

We report experiments on convection patterns in a cylindrical cell with a large aspect ratio. The fluid had a Prandtl number of approximately 1. We observed a chaotic pattern consisting of many rotating spirals and other defects in the…

A frequently encountered situation in the study of delay systems is that the length of the delay time changes with time, which is of relevance in many fields such as optics, mechanical machining, biology or physiology. A characteristic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-12-07 Jian Wang , Günter Radons , Hongliu Yang

Evolutionary complexity is here measured by the number of trials/evaluations needed for evolving a logical gate in a non-linear medium. Behavioural complexity of the gates evolved is characterised in terms of cellular automata behaviour. We…

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The stability of a rotating flow in a triaxial ellipsoidal shell with an imposed temperature difference between inner and outer boundaries is studied numerically. We demonstrate that (i) a stable temperature field encourages the tidal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-10-01 David Cébron , Pierre Maubert , Michael Le Bars

In this paper, we present high-level overviews of tile-based self-assembling systems capable of producing complex, infinite, aperiodic structures known as discrete self-similar fractals. Fractals have a variety of interesting mathematical…

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We give a characterization of the central shell-focusing curvature singularity that can form in the spherical gravitational collapse of a bounded matter distribution obeying the dominant energy condition. This characterization is based on…

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We present models and computational results which indicate that the spatial and temporal regularity seen in Proteus mirabilis swarm-colony development is largely an expression of a sharp age of dedifferentiation in the cell cycle from…

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