Cluster aggregation under diffusion

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 231, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 191-196

  Sciortino, Francesco ^a   Tartaglia, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DIFFUSION; FRACTALS; GELATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

CLUSTER AGGREGATION; DIFFUSION LIMITED CLUSTER AGGREGATION; SCALING PROPERTIES; SCATTERED INTENSITY;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 0030245347     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(96)00078-7     Document Type: Article

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