Kinetics of Aggregation and Gelation

We define six kinetic growth models that have witnessed an explosion of recent activity: 1 Cancer Growth (Eden) 2 Colloid Growth (Langer-Muller-Krumbhaar; Witten-Sander) 3 Breakdown (Sawada et al.) 4 Crystallization (Rikvold) 5 Invasion Percolation (Schlumberger group) 6 Addition Polymerization (Manneville-de Seze; Herrmann et al.) We also describe briefly some of the approaches used to study these models, with emphasis on the re normalization group approach being developed by us.

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