Regensburg 2013 – scientific programme

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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 16: Pattern Formation

DY 16.8: Talk

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11:45–12:00, H46

Revisiting the Scaling Analysis of Irreversible Aggregation Dynamics — •Jürgen Vollmer — Max Planck Insitute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

The analysis of the size distribution of droplets condensing on a substrate is a test ground for scaling theories. Surprisingly, a faithful description of its evolution must explicitly address microscopic nucleation and growth mechanisms of the droplets [1]. In view of this we discuss how this breaking of universality relates to other systems with vastly polydisperse droplet size distributions, like the growth of droplets in clouds.
[1] J Blaschke, T Lapp, B Hof, and J Vollmer, PRL 109, 068701 (2012).