Table A.1: List of symbols.
$\Delta {v}$ relative velocity
$\Sigma$ surface density
$\Omega$ angular (Keplerian) rotation frequency
A geometrical cross-section (1 particle)
C collision rate
E collision energy
$E_{\rm restr}/E_{\rm max-c}/E_{\rm frag}$ energy limits for particle restructuring/ maximum-compression/ fragmentation
$H_{\rm g}/h$ gas/particle scale height
K collision kernel
N number of monomers (Sect. 2); number of particles (Sect. 3)
$N_{\rm c}$ number of contacts
$N_{\rm s}$ number of distinct particles (number of species)
R heliocentric radius
Re Reynolds number
T temperature
$V/{\cal V}$ particle/simulated volume
$\alpha _{\rm T}$ turbulent viscosity parameter
$\xi$ critical displacement
$\gamma$ specific surface energy
$\delta$ area-mass exponent ( $A\sim m^\delta$) in fractal regime
$\kappa$ number of coagulations
$\mu$ reduced mass
$\nu_{\rm m}/\nu_{\rm T}$ molecular/turbulent viscosity
$\psi $ enlargement parameter
$\rho_{\rm d}/\rho_{\rm g}/\rho_{\rm s}$ dust/gas/specific density
$\sigma$ collision cross-section
$\tau_{\rm f}$ friction time
$\tau_{\rm rain}$ friction time at which particles are removed from simulation due to rain-out
a/a0 radius (size)/monomer size
$c_{\rm g}$ thermal sound speed
gi number population of species i.
$k_{\rm B}$ Boltzmann constant
$\ell$ eddy length scale
m mass
f particle distribution function (number density spectrum)
r random deviate
t time
$t_{\rm s}/t_0$ turn-over timescale of smallest/largest eddy
v velocity
$ {v_{\rm s}}/{v_0}$ velocity smallest/largest eddies


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