Asymptotics of self-similar solutions to coagulation equations with product kernel

Publication date 6 September 2011

Abstract: We consider mass-conserving self-similar solutions for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with kernel

K (x i, e t a) = (x i e t a)^{l a m b d a}

with

l a m b d a i n (0, 1 / 2)

. It is known that such self-similar solutions

g (x)

satisfy that

x^{- 1 + 2 l a m b d a} g (x)

is bounded above and below as

x o 0

. In this paper we describe in detail via formal asymptotics the qualitative behavior of a suitably rescaled function

h (x) = h_{l a m b d a} x^{- 1 + 2 l a m b d a} g (x)

in the limit

l a m b d a o 0

. It turns out that

h s i m 1 + C x^{l a m b d a / 2} c o s (s q r t l a m b d a l o g x)

as

x o 0

. As

x

becomes larger

h

develops peaks of height

1 / l a m b d a

that are separated by large regions where

h

is small. Finally,

h

converges to zero exponentially fast as

x o i n f t y

. Our analysis is based on different approximations of a nonlocal operator, that reduces the original equation in certain regimes to a system of ODE.

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