Abstract
We propose a model for the simultaneous diffusion-limited growth of two clusters A and B, where the growth of one cluster screens the growth of the other one. We consider the possibility that the A and B clusters can penetrate into each other in course of their growth in different spatial dimensions and express the conjecture that the A-B boundary is flat in all dimensions. Using an electrostatic analogy, we compute some spatial characteristics of the clusters.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 64, No. 7, 504–509 (10 October 1996)
Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.