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We consider incorporation of particle detachment in Smoluchowski model of colloidal growth. Two approaches are considered, utilizing phenomenological rate equation and exact large-time results. Our main conclusion is that the value of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-22 Dima Mozyrsky , Vladimir Privman

The multicomponent coagulation equation is a generalisation of the Smoluchowski coagulation equation in which size of a particle is described by a vector. As with the original Smoluchowski equation, the multicomponent coagulation equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Jochem Hoogendijk , Ivan Kryven , Camillo Schenone

We study multicomponent coagulation via the Smoluchowski coagulation equation under non-equilibrium stationary conditions induced by a source of small clusters. The coagulation kernel can be very general, merely satisfying certain power law…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Marina A. Ferreira , Jani Lukkarinen , Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We study the small-mass limit, also known as the Smoluchowski-Kramers diffusion approximation (see \cite{kra} and \cite{smolu}), for a system of stochastic damped wave equations, whose solution is constrained to live in the unitary sphere…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Sandra Cerrai , Mengzi Xie

In this paper we study the fundamental solution of the equation obtained by the linearisation of the Smoluchowski coagulation equation with the multiplicative kernel $(x y)^{\lambda/2}$ with $\lambda\in (1, 2)$ around the steady state…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 M. Escobedo , J. J. L. Velazquez

The strong friction regime at low temperatures is analyzed systematically starting from the formally exact path integral expression for the reduced dynamics. This quantum Smoluchowski regime allows for a type of semiclassical treatment in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-03 Stefan A. Maier , Joachim Ankerhold

We characterize the long-time behaviour of solutions to Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with a diagonal kernel of homogeneity $\gamma < 1$. Due to the property of the diagonal kernel, the value of a solution depends only on a discrete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Philippe Laurençot , Barbara Niethammer , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We demonstrate an approach to solving the coagulation equation that involves using a finite number of moments of the particle size distribution. This approach is particularly useful when only general properties of the distribution, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul R. Estrada , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

We present a rigorous thermodynamic treatment of irreversible binary aggregation. We construct the Smoluchowski ensemble as the set of discrete finite distributions generated from the same initial state of all monomers upon fixed number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-16 Themis Matsoukas

The asymptotic behavior of the solution of an infinite set of Smoluchowski's discrete coagulation-fragmentation-diffusion equations with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, defined in a periodically perforated domain, is analyzed.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Laurent Desvillettes , Silvia Lorenzani

We develop a formally exact technique for obtaining steady-state distributions of non-interacting active Brownian particles in a variety of systems. Our technique draws on results from the theory of two-way diffusion equations to solve the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-06 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We study the free diffusion in two dimensions of active-Brownian swimmers subject to passive fluctuations on the translational motion and to active fluctuations on the rotational one. The Smoluchowski equation is derived from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-25 Francisco J. Sevilla , Mario Sandoval

In the present study, the information entropy for smoluchowski coagulation equation is proposed based on the statistical physics. and the normalized particle size distribution is a log-normal function at equilibrium from the principle of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-22 Mingliang Xie

We propose an efficient and fast numerical algorithm of finding a \emph{stationary} solution of large systems of aggregation-fragmentation equations of Smoluchowski type for concentrations of reacting particles. This method is applicable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Vladimir Stadnichuk , Anna Bodrova , Nikolai Brilliantov

Global solutions to the multicomponent Smoluchowski coagulation equation are constructed for measure-valued initial data with minimal assumptions on the moments. The framework is based on an abstract formulation of the Arzel\`a-Ascoli…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Marina A. Ferreira , Sakari Pirnes

The Smoluchowski approach to diffusion-controlled reactions is generalized to interacting substrate particles by including the osmotic pressure and hydrodynamic interactions of the nonideal particles in the Smoluchoswki equation within a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Dzubiella , J. A. McCammon

This article deals with the issues of global-in-time existence and asymptotic analysis of a fluid-particle interaction model in the so-called bubbling regime. The mixture occupies the physical space $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ which may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-16 Jose A. Carrillo , Trygve Karper , Konstantina Trivisa

We analyze the dynamics of concentrated polymer solutions modeled by a 2D Smoluchowski equation. We describe the long time behavior of the polymer suspensions in a fluid. When the flow influence is neglected the equation has a gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Xingyu Li , Arghir Zarnescu

If the rates, $K(x,y)$, at which particles of size $x$ coalesce with particles of size $y$ is known, then the mean-field evolution of the particle-size distribution of an ensemble of irreversibly coalescing particles is described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter P. Jones , Robin C. Ball , Colm Connaughton

In this paper, a partial integro-differential equation modeling of coagulation and multiple fragmentation events is studied. Our purpose is to investigate the global existence of gelling weak solutions to the continuous coagulation and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Prasanta Kumar Barik