%0 Journal Article
%T Aggregation Driven by a Localized Source
%A P. L. Krapivsky
%J Physics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/1751-8113/48/24/245002
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02749v1