On a model for mass aggregation with maximal size

DOI10.3934/KRM.2011.4.427MaRDI QIDQ549877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ondrej Budáč, Michael Herrmann, Andrej Spielmann, Barbara Niethammer

Publication date 19 July 2011

Published in Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1797

zbMATH Keywords

self-similar solutionsaggregation with maximal sizecoarsening in coagulation models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We study a kinetic mean-field equation for a system of particles with different sizes, in which particles are allowed to coagulate only if their sizes sum up to a prescribed time-dependent value. We prove well-posedness of this model, study the existence of self-similar solutions, and analyze the large-time behavior mostly by numerical simulations. Depending on the parameter $Dconst$, which controls the probability of coagulation, we observe two different scenarios: For $Dconst>2$ there exist two self-similar solutions to the mean field equation, of which one is unstable. In numerical simulations we observe that for all initial data the rescaled solutions converge to the stable self-similar solution. For $Dconst<2$, however, no self-similar behavior occurs as the solutions converge in the original variables to a limit that depends strongly on the initial data. We prove rigorously a corresponding statement for $Dconstin(0,1/3)$. Simulations for the cross-over case $Dconst=2$ are not completely conclusive, but indicate that, depending on the initial data, part of the mass evolves in a self-similar fashion whereas another part of the mass remains in the small particles.

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