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Unpublished Paper
Dynamics of Conformal Maps for a Class of Non-Laplacian Growth Phenomena
(2003)
  • Martin Z. Bazant
  • Jaehyuk Choi
  • Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Abstract

Time-dependent conformal maps are used to model a class of growth phenomena limited by coupled non-Laplacian transport processes, such as nonlinear diffusion, advection, and electro- migration. Both continuous and stochastic dynamics are described by generalizing conformal- mapping techniques for viscous fingering and diffusion-limited aggregation, respectively. A gen- eral notion of time in stochastic growth is also introduced. The theory is applied to simulations of advection-diffusion-limited aggregation in a background potential flow. A universal crossover in mor- phology is observed from diffusion-limited to advection-limited fractal patterns with an associated crossover in the growth rate, controlled by a time-dependent effective Peclet number. Remarkably, the fractal dimension is not affected by advection, in spite of dramatic increases in anisotropy and growth rate, due to the persistence of diffusion limitation at small scales.

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Publication Date
March 12, 2003
Comments
Pre-published version from archive ArXiv. Published version located at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.045503
Citation Information
Martin Z. Bazant, Jaehyuk Choi and Benny Davidovitch. "Dynamics of Conformal Maps for a Class of Non-Laplacian Growth Phenomena" (2003)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/benny_davidovitch/9/