“When in a difficult situation, it is sometimes better to give up and start all over again.” While
this empirical truth has been regularly observed in a wide range of circumstances …

Ballistic deposition is a classical model for interface growth in which unit blocks fall down
vertically at random on the different sites of Z and stick to the interface at the first point of …

We study, by extensive numerical simulations, the dynamics of a hard-core tracer particle
(TP) in presence of two competing types of disorder—frozen convection flows on a square …

This thesis is devoted to the study of extreme value statistics in stochastic processes and
their applications. In the first part, we obtain exact analytical results on the extreme value …

The dynamics of in situ 2D HeLa cell quasi-linear and quasi-radial colony fronts in a
standard culture medium is investigated. For quasi-radial colonies, as the cell population …

Random walks (RW) of particles adsorbed in the internal walls of porous deposits produced
by ballistic-type growth models are studied. The particles start at the external surface of the …

This paper presents fast, accurate software for modeling physical vapor deposition systems
over irregular surfaces. The model is implemented using graphics processing unit (GPU) ray …

The ballistic deposition model of rod-like particles with power-law distributed noise is
studied by the Monte Carlo simulation. In this modified model instead of particles with fixed …

We introduce a new class of growth models, with a surface restructuring mechanism in
which impinging particles may dislodge suspended particles, previously aggregated on the …

In order to investigate the influences of large height differences and overhangs on the
dynamic scaling behavior of discrete models, meanwhile reducing the finite-size effects, the …