Abstract
The effects of some simple restructuring processes in which pairs of rigid clusters can readjust their positions with respect to each other after collision have been investigated using the three-dimensional hierarchical cluster-cluster aggregation model. In these models we assume that contacts between pairs of particles once formed cannot be broken but may move on the surface of particles in one cluster which contact particles in a different cluster immediately after contact has been made. Such structural readjustment processes increase the fractal dimensionality from a value of about 1.89 without readjustment by an amount which depends on model details. The highest fractal dimensionality obtained in the models investigated here was about 2.13. For ballistic aggregation with a zero impact parameter the fractal dimensionality can be raised from 2.04 to 2.21.
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