A Membrane Computing Model for Ballistic Depositions

Abstract

Ballistic Deposition was proposed by Vold and Sutherland as a model for colloidal aggregation. These early works were later extended to simulate the process of vapor deposition. In general, Ballistic Deposition models involve (d + 1)-dimensional particles which rain down sequentially at random onto a d-dimensional substrate; when a particle arrives on the existing agglomeration of deposited particles, it sticks to the rst particle it contacts, which may result in lateral growth. In this paper we present a rst P system model for Ballistic Deposition with d = 1.