Modeling snow crystal growth III: three-dimensional snowfakes
arXiv:0711.4020
Abstract
We introduce a three-dimensional, computationally feasible, mesoscopic model for snow crystal growth, based on diffusion of vapor, anisotropic attachment, and a semi-liquid boundary layer. Several case studies are presented that faithfully emulate a wide variety of physical snowflakes.
39 pages; 47 figures; see also http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/Snowfakes.htm