On the scaling theory of two-component aggregation

✍ Scribed by R.Dennis Vigil; Robert M. Ziff

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 104 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2509(98)00016-5

✦ Synopsis

The behavior of a closed system undergoing irreversible aggregation and containing two distinct monomer types is considered. For large cluster sizes and at large times, the size-composition distribution is described by a two-parameter scaling law, which is valid for homogeneous non-gelling kernels. This scaling law is composed of the product of a normal distribution in particle composition and the one-parameter scaling function for the corresponding homogeneous aggregation problem. It is shown that this scaling law also applies to a kernel that depends linearly (and not simply as the total particle size) upon particle composition.