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We give a mean-field, continuum treatment of ballistic aggregation on a seed and a line. The treatment is deterministic, except for one statistical assumption, the so-called tangent rule which determines the mean direction of growth. Our treatment represents progress toward the explanation of the columnar microstructure.
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Ramanlal et al. (1985) studied this question.
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