Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-01-19
Physical Review E 79, 021406 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.79.021406
We investigate a model in which an ensemble of chemically identical Brownian particles are continuously growing by condensation and at the same time undergo irreversible aggregation whenever two particles come into contact upon collision. We solved the model exactly by using scaling theory for the case whereby a particle, say of size $x$, grows by an amount $\alpha x$ over the time it takes to collide with another particle of any size. It is shown that the particle size spectra of such system exhibit transition to dynamic scaling $c(x,t)\sim t^{-\beta}\phi(x/t^z)$ accompanied by the emergence of fractal of dimension $d_f={{1}\over{1+2\alpha}}$. One of the remarkable feature of this model is that it is governed by a non-trivial conservation law, namely, the $d_f^{th}$ moment of $c(x,t)$ is time invariant regardless of the choice of the initial conditions. The reason why it remains conserved is explained by using a simple dimensional analysis. We show that the scaling exponents $\beta$ and $z$ are locked with the fractal dimension $d_f$ via a generalized scaling relation $\beta=(1+d_f)z$.
Hassan Kamrul M.
Hassan Zahedul M.
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