Aggregation Driven by a Localized Source

Abstract

We study aggregation driven by a localized source of monomers. The densities become stationary and have algebraic tails far away from the source. We show that in a model with mass-independent reaction rates and diffusion coefficients, the density of monomers decays as $r^{-\beta (d)}$ in $d$ dimensions. The decay exponent has irrational values in physically relevant dimensions: $\beta (3)=(\sqrt{17}+1)/2$ and $\beta (2)=\sqrt{8}$. We also study Brownian coagulation with a localized source and establish the behavior of the total cluster density and the total number of of clusters in the system. The latter quantity exhibits a logarithmic growth with time.

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• Analytical Study of Giant Fluctuations and Temporal Intermittency in an Aggregation Model