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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Aerosol Sci Technol. 2012 Mar;46(3):347–353. doi: 10.1080/02786826.2011.631956

Table 1.

The prefactor kn and fractal dimension Df of agglomerates made by DLCA, BCCA, DLA and BPCA as obtained using the actual PP number np and radius rp are compared to kn and Df obtained assuming monodisperse PPs of equivalent average number nva and radius rva (eq. 3 & 4).

σ g D f k n D f k n
Actual np and rp Monodisperse assumption, nva & rva
(eq. 3 & 4)
DLCA
1.00 1.79 ± 0.03 1.40 ± 0.12 1.79 ± 0.03 1.40 ± 0.12
1.45 1.77 ± 0.03 1.23 ± 0.11 1.79 ± 0.03 1.42 ± 0.11
2.00 1.68 ± 0.03 0.98 ± 0.11 1.74 ± 0.03 1.53 ± 0.11
2.50 1.57 ± 0.04 0.90 ± 0.13 1.68 ± 0.04 1.66 ± 0.11
3.00 1.48 ± 0.04 0.77 ± 0.13 1.60 ± 0.04 1.80 ± 0.11
σ g BCCA
1.00 1.89 ± 0.03 1.36 ± 0.10 1.89 ± 0.03 1.36 ± 0.10
1.45 1.85 ± 0.03 1.25 ± 0.11 1.86 ± 0.03 1.49 ± 0.11
2.00 1.74 ± 0.04 1.09 ± 0.12 1.75 ± 0.03 2.04 ± 0.14
2.50 1.62 ± 0.04 1.06 ± 0.15 1.53 ± 0.04 3.01 ± 0.19
3.00 1.52 ± 0.04 1.00 ± 0.16 1.36 ± 0.04 3.62 ± 0.20
σ g DLA
1.00 2.25 ± 0.02 0.86 ± 0.04 2.25 ± 0.02 0.86 ± 0.04
1.45 2.21 ± 0.03 0.63 ± 0.05 2.21 ± 0.03 0.83 ± 0.05
2.00 1.91 ± 0.05 0.64 ± 0.10 1.91 ± 0.05 1.23 ± 0.10
2.50 1.71 ± 0.06 0.63 ± 0.13 1.71 ± 0.06 1.50 ± 0.13
3.00 1.51 ± 0.05 0.82 ± 0.17 1.51 ± 0.05 2.31 ± 0.2
σ g BPCA
1.00 2.81 ± 0.03 0.46 ± 0.03 2.81 ± 0.03 0.46 ± 0.03
1.45 2.62 ± 0.04 0.41 ± 0.04 2.70 ± 0.04 0.55 ± 0.04
2.00 2.12 ± 0.05 0.51 ± 0.08 2.26 ± 0.05 1.17 ± 0.11
2.50 1.80 ± 0.06 0.61 ± 0.14 1.93 ± 0.06 1.76 ± 0.17
3.00 1.57 ± 0.06 0.75 ± 0.17 1.58 ± 0.06 2.56 ± 0.21