Gelation and cluster growth with cluster-wall interactions

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 119-143

  Rotstein, Horacio G ^a   Novick Cohen, Amy ^a   Tannenbaum, Rina ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster growth; Coagulation equations; Gelation; Infinite dimensional dynamical systems; Metallic clusters in a polymer matrix; Smoluchowski equations with side reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031641168     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1023247500637     Document Type: Article

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