Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://buratest.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/314
 Title: Diffusive growth of a single droplet with three different boundary conditions Authors: Tavassoli, ZRodgers, GJ Keywords: Statistical mechanics;Soft condensed matter Issue Date: 1999 Publisher: Springer Citation: Eur. Phys. J. B 14: 139-144 (2000) Abstract: We study a single, motionless three-dimensional droplet growing by adsorption of diffusing monomers on a 2D substrate. The diffusing monomers are adsorbed at the aggregate perimeter of the droplet with different boundary conditions. Models with both an adsorption boundary condition and a radiation boundary condition, as well as a phenomenological model, are considered and solved in a quasistatic approximation. The latter two models allow particle detachment. In the short time limit, the droplet radius grows as a power of the time with exponents of 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 for the models with adsorption, radiation and phenomenological boundary conditions, respectively. In the long time limit a universal growth rate as $[t/\ln(t)]^{1/3}$ is observed for the radius of the droplet for all models independent of the boundary conditions. This asymptotic behaviour was obtained by Krapivsky \cite{krapquasi} where a similarity variable approach was used to treat the growth of a droplet with an adsorption boundary condition based on a quasistatic approximation. Another boundary condition with a constant flux of monomers at the aggregate perimeter is also examined. The results exhibit a power law growth rate with an exponent of 1/3 for all times. URI: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1434-6036/http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/314 Appears in Collections: Mathematical PhysicsDept of Mathematics Research PapersMathematical Sciences

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