title: Laplacian growth of parallel needles: a Fokker-Planck equation approach.
abstract: Using a conformal transformation to set up the iterative nonlinear equations, we study analytically the kinetics of growth of parallel needles. We establish a discrete Fokker-Planck equation for the probability of finding at time t a given distribution of needle lengths. In the linear regime, it shows a short-wavelength Laplacian instability which we investigate in detail. From the crossover of the solutions to the nonlinear regime, we deduce analytically the general scale invariance of the two-dimensional models.
authors.affiliation: LPMC, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garnier
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Gouyet