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Packing-limited growth

P. S. Dodds and J. S. Weitz

Physical Review E, 65, 056108, 2002

Times cited: 72

Abstract:

We consider growing spheres seeded by random injection in time and space. Growth stops when two spheres meet leading eventually to a jammed state. We study the statistics of growth limited by packing theoretically in $d$ dimensions and via simulation in $d$=2, 3, and 4. We show how a broad class of such models exhibit distributions of sphere radii with a universal exponent. We construct a scaling theory which relates the fractal structure of these models to the decay of their pore space, a theory which we confirm via numerical simulations. The scaling theory also predicts an upper bound for the universal exponent and is in exact agreement with numerical results for $d$=4.
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BibTeX:

@Article{dodds2002a,
  author = 	 {Dodds, P.S. and Weitz, J.S.},
  title = 	 {Packing-limited growth},
  journal = 	 {Phys. Rev. E},
  year = 	 {2002},
  key =          {ecology},
  volume = 	 {65},
  pages = 	 {056108},
  weblink = 	 {http://publish.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v65/p056108},
  eprint = 	 {},
  pdf = 	 {}
}

 

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