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Coagulation equations with source leading to anomalous self-similarity

Mathematical Physics 2023-05-29 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study the long-time behaviour of the solutions to Smoluchowski coagulation equations with a source term of small clusters. The source drives the system out-of-equilibrium, leading to a rich range of different possible long-time behaviours, including anomalous self-similarity. The coagulation kernel is non-gelling, homogeneous, with homogeneity γ1\gamma \leq -1 , and behaves like xγ+λyλx^{\gamma+\lambda} y^{-\lambda} when yxy \ll x with γ+2λ>1\gamma+2\lambda > 1 . Our analysis shows that the long-time behaviour of the solutions depends on the parameters γ\gamma and λ\lambda. More precisely, we argue that the long-time behaviour is self-similar, although the scaling of the self-similar solutions depends on the sign of γ+λ\gamma+\lambda and on whether γ=1\gamma=-1 or γ<1\gamma < -1. In all these cases, the scaling differs from the usual one that has been previously obtained when γ+2λ<1\gamma+2\lambda <1 or γ+2λ1,γ>1\gamma+2\lambda \geq 1, \gamma >-1. In the last part of the paper, we present some conjectures supporting the self-similar ansatz also for the critical case γ+2λ=1,γ1\gamma+2\lambda=1, \gamma \leq -1 .

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@article{arxiv.2305.16921,
  title  = {Coagulation equations with source leading to anomalous self-similarity},
  author = {Marina A. Ferreira and Eugenia Franco and Jani Lukkarinen and Alessia Nota and Juan J. L. Velázquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.16921},
  year   = {2023}
}