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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 Kε(ξ,η)=(ξ1ε+η1ε)(ξη)ε2K_{\varepsilon }(\xi,\eta) =\big( \xi^{1-\varepsilon }+\eta^{1-\varepsilon }\big)\big ( \xi\eta\big) ^{\frac{\varepsilon }{2}}. 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 ε\varepsilon. 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}
}
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