DENDRITIC GROWTH 2)4)
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A way of growth through formation of dissipative structures along divergent hexagonal branching fractals.
A well known example is the hexagonal growth characteristic of snowflakes. But dendritic growth appears in many other systems, as for example trees, cities or clusters of human settlements (hexagonal space filling). It is the result of a very general way of dissipative structuration by which the already existing structures become definitory of the possibility of accretion of new elements during the growth process.
Dendritic growth processes have been mathematically modelized under the name of diffusion-limited aggregation.
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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