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This paper is concerned not with the nearly parabolic shape of dendritic growth near its forward tip, but with the eventual large scale morphology which develops as sidebranches grow and further levels of branching evolve. We focus on the ideal case, where growth is limited by the kinetics of pure diffusion in the medium ahead of the growth in competition only with the energetics of surface tension at its surface.
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Ball, R.C. (1989). On the Possible Application of Fractal Scaling Ideas in Dendritic Growth. In: Pietronero, L. (eds) Fractals’ Physical Origin and Properties. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3499-4_12
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