Well-posedness for boundary value problems for coagulation-fragmentation equations

DOI10.3934/KRM.2020028MaRDI QIDQ2197888zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 1 September 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10992

coagulation detailed balance condition fragmentation measure-valued solutions

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Integro-partial differential equations (45K05)

Abstract: We investigate a coagulation-fragmentation equation with boundary data, establishing the well-posedness of the initial value problem when the coagulation kernels are bounded at zero and showing existence of solutions for the singular kernels relevant in the applications. We determine the large time asymptotic behavior of solutions, proving that solutions converge exponentially fast to zero in the absence of fragmentation and stabilize toward an equilibrium if the boundary value satisfies a detailed balance condition. Incidentally, we obtain an improvement in the regularity of solutions by showing the finiteness of negative moments for positive time.

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Existence of weak solutions is shown for the coagulation-fragmentation equation when the size distribution of the particles is prescribed for large sizes \(x>1\), which reads \begin{align*} \partial_t f(t,x) & = \frac{1}{2} \int_0^x K(x-y,y) f(t,x-y) f(t,y)\ dy - \int_0^1 K(x,y) f(t,x) f(t,y)\ dy \\ & \quad - \int_1^\infty K(x,y) f(t,x) g(t,y)\ dy + \int_{1-x}^\infty F(x,y) g(t,x+y)\ dy \\ & \quad - \frac{1}{2} \int_0^x F(x-y,y)\ dy f(t,x) + \int_0^{1-x} F(x,y) f(t,x+y)\ dy \end{align*} for \((t,x)\in (0,\infty)\times (0,1)\), the function \(g\) being given and defined on \((0,\infty)\times (1,\infty)\) and accounting for the known size distribution of particles with sizes exceeding one. Here, \(K\) and \(F\) are non-negative and symmetric functions providing the coagulation and fragmentation rates, respectively, and it is assumed that there are \((\alpha,\beta,\gamma)\in [0,1]^3\) such that \[ K(x,y) \le K_0 \left( x^{-\alpha} + y^{-\alpha} \right) \left( x^\beta + y^\beta \right), \qquad F(x,y) \le F_0 \left( x^\gamma + y^\gamma \right) \] for \((x,y)\in (0,\infty)^2\). Note that the classical coagulation-fragmentation equation can be obtained from the above equation after replacing \(g\) by \(f\). Assuming that \(g\) is a non-negative function in \(C([0,\infty),L^1(0,\infty))\) such that \[ \sup_{t\ge 0} \int_1^\infty x^{\max\{\beta,\gamma\}} g(t,x)\ dx < \infty, \] while the initial condition \(f^{in}\) is a bounded measure on \((0,1]\), the existence of a measure-valued solution \(f\) is shown. Moreover, if \(K\) also satisfies \[ K(x,y) \ge K_1 \left( x^{-\alpha} + y^{-\alpha} \right) \left( x^\beta + y^\beta \right), \] some moments of negative order of this solution are finite for almost all \(t>0\). Also, temporal decay estimates on the total variation of \(f\) are derived in the absence of fragmentation (\(F\equiv 0\)). Finally, when \(g\) does not depend on time and a detailed balance condition is assumed on \(K\) and \(F\), convergence to a stationary solution is shown.

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