Scaling in steady-state aggregation with injection
Camacho Castro, Juan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)

Date:	2001
Abstract:	A mean-field approach for steady-state aggregation with injection is presented. It is shown that for a wide variety of aggregation processes the resulting steady-size distribution obeys a power law N(m) m-α with α=(3+β)/2 and β the degree of homogeneity of the coagulation kernel. The general conditions for this to happen are obtained. Some applications are studied. In particular, it predicts a potential behavior for coagulation in atmospheric aerosols with exponent α≈2, in agreement with observations. The theoretical results also agree with some animal group-size distributions and with numerical simulations in fractal aggregates.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Physical review. E : Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, Vol. 63, Number 4 (March 2001) , p. 046112/1-046112/4, ISSN 1539-3755

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.046112

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