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A Discrete Model For Pattern Formation In Volatile ThinFilms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2012

M. Malik-Garbi and
O. Agam

Abstract

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We introduce a model, similar to diffusion limited aggregation (DLA), which serves as adiscrete analog of the continuous dynamics of evaporation of thin liquid films. Withinmean field approximation the dynamics of this model, averaged over many realizations ofthe growing cluster, reduces to that of the idealized evaporation model in which surfacetension is neglected. However fluctuations beyond the mean field level play an importantrole, and we study their effect on the conserved quantities of the idealized evaporationmodel. Assuming the cluster to be a fractal, a heuristic approach is developed in order toexplain the distinctive increase of the fractal dimension with the cluster size.

Keywords

viscous fingeringdiffusion limited aggregationreaction-diffusion

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