Internal diffusion-limited aggregation: Parallel algorithms and complexity

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 661-690

  Moore, Cristopher ^a,b   Machta, Jonathan ^c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Internal diffusion limited aggregation; Parallel algorithms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034335552     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018627008925     Document Type: Article

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