Local and global strong solutions to continuous coagulation-fragmentation equations with diffusion

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2004.09.004MaRDI QIDQ2576192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 8 December 2005

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2004.09.004

homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions semigroup theory volume scattering well-posedness

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations (35K60) Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06) Applications of operator theory to differential and integral equations (47N20) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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The continuous coagulation-fragmentation equation with diffusion describes the space and time evolution of the size distribution function \(u\geq 0\) of a population of particles which may either increase their sizes by binary coagulation or decrease their sizes by fragmentation, and move in space according to Brownian movements. The range of the admissible sizes is an open interval \((0,y_0)\) with \(y_0\in (0,\infty]\), and an additional mechanism, the so-called volume scattering, is taken into account if \(y_0<\infty\). The coagulation and scattering reaction terms \(L_c\) and \(L_s\) are quadratic operators which are nonlocal with respect to the size variable \(y\) and local with respect to the space variable \(x\), while the fragmentation reaction term \(L_b\) is a linear operator. The continuous diffusive coagulation-fragmentation equation reads \[ \partial_t u(t,x,y) - d(y) \Delta_x u(t,x,y) = L_b[u(t,x,.)](y) + (L_c+L_s)[u(t,x,.),u(t,x,.)](y) \] for \(t\geq 0\), \(x\in\Omega\) and \(y\in (0,y_0)\) and is supplemented with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and an initial datum \(u^0\in L^1((0,y_0),L^p(\Omega), (1+y) dy)\), \(\Omega\) being an open bounded subset of \({\mathbb R}^n\) and \(p\geq 1\). The above equation is then viewed as a semilinear parabolic equation in the space \(L^1((0,y_0),L^p(\Omega))\), to which a semigroup approach can be applied to establish (i) the local in time well-posedness when \(p>n/2\), (ii) the nonnegativity of \(u\) if \(u_0\) is initially nonnegative and (iii) the conservation of mass, that is, \[ \int_\Omega \int_0^{y_0} u(t,x,y)\, dy\,dx = \int_\Omega \int_0^{y_0} u_0(x,y)\, dy\,dx, \] for \(t\) ranging in the maximal existence time. The approach used here differs from that used in previous papers by the authors where the equation was rather viewed as a vector-valued parabolic semilinear equation in \(L^p(\Omega,L^1(0,y_0))\). Global existence results are also provided under suitable assumptions on the reaction terms in the following cases: (i) \(n\leq 3\) and the diffusion coefficient \(d\) does not depend on \(y\), (ii) \(n=1\), (iii) \(L_b\equiv 0\) and \(u^0\) is small enough. In particular, the last result relies on the conservation of mass, the nonlinearity of the reaction term and the fast decay of the linear part of the equation in the space of functions with vanishing mean value.

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