We report event-driven molecular dynamics simulations of the irreversible gelation of hard ellipsoids of revolution containing several associating groups, characterizing how the cluster size distribution evolves as a function of the extent of reaction, both below and above the gel point. We find that over a very large interval of values of the extent of reaction, parameter-free mean-field predictions are extremely accurate, providing evidence that in this model the Ginzburg zone near the gel ...
