Scaling in the diffusion limited aggregation model.

Anton Menshutin1

  • 1Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and Scientific Center in Chernogolovka, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia.

Physical Review Letters
|February 7, 2012
PubMed
Summary

Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) growth follows a scale-invariant probability density, revealing a single fractal dimension. Multiscaling observed in DLA is a finite-size effect, not intrinsic to the process.

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