Oscillatory travelling wave solutions for coagulation equations
Analysis of PDEs
2017-02-09 v1
Abstract
We consider Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with kernels of homogeneity one of the form . Heuristically, in suitable exponential variables, one can argue that in this case the long-time behaviour of solutions is similar to the inviscid Burgers equation and that for Riemann data solutions converge to a traveling wave for large times. Numerical simulations in \cite{HNV16} indeed support this conjecture, but also reveal that the traveling waves are oscillatory and the oscillations become stronger with smaller . The goal of this paper is to construct such oscillatory traveling wave solutions and provide details of their shape via formal matched asymptotic expansions.
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@article{arxiv.1702.02437,
title = {Oscillatory travelling wave solutions for coagulation equations},
author = {Barbara Niethammer and Juan J. J. L. Velazquez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02437},
year = {2017}
}