ABSTRACT
Coagulating liquid particles are generally spherical, but solid aggregates form more complex structures. In many cases the structure of particulate aggregates approaches a self-similar form wherein the particle mass scales with the radius of gyration of the agglomerate, R
m m R R
⎛ ⎝⎜
⎞ ⎠⎟
(2.2)
where D f is the mass fractal dimension, which is generally smaller than the Euclidean dimension of 3,
often about 1.8 for highly agglomerated particles, and m 0 r p v 0 is the mass of the primary particle.
