Coagulation and diffusion: a probabilistic perspective on the Smoluchowski PDE (Q1683405)

This is a survey on various questions related to diffusive coagulating systems. More especially here, the author deals with the Smoluchowski coagulation-diffusion partial differential equation (PDE), and the author details how the latter can be derived in a kinetic limit from a set of microscopic random models of diffusing particles which are mutually coagulating two at a time. The survey is expanded around a main theorem which describes the evolution of the density of particles of different masses in the limit of large particles. In this paper, typically we are going from microscopic particles to macroscopic systems.