98% DLCA simulated aerogel indicating the length scales δ and ξa


Click here to View the interactive 3D 3000 Å cube of 98.5% porosity DLCA simulated aerogel displayed in interactive 3D with Quicktime VR. (Click and drag to rotate. Shift and control to zoom in and out.).

 


Click Here to view into a 3000 Å cube of 98.5% porosity aerogel simulated with a Diffusion Limited Cluster Aggregation (DLCA) model. The 16,362 spheres have a mean diameter of 30Å, distributed as a Gaussian with width 15Å. The red lines indicate the edges of the simulated volume. Periodic boundary conditions are used. Periodic boundary conditions were used. The simulations were implemented in C++, MacOS, and imaged with POV-Ray, by Tom Haard. For more information on the DLCA algorithm see, for example

1. A. Hasmy, R. Vacher, and R. Jullien, Phys. Rev. B, 50, 1305 (1994).

2. A. Hasmy, E. Anglaret, M. Foret, J. Pelous, and R. Jullien, Phys. Rev. B., 50, 6006 (1994).

3. J.V. Porto, Ph.D. thesis, (Cornell Univ.), unpublished (1996).


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