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 = {} }