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Smoluchowski's coagulation equations can be used as elementary mathematical models for the formation of polymers. We review here some recent contributions on a variation of this model in which the number of aggregations for each atom is a…
The Smoluchowski coagulation equation (SCE) is a population balance model that describes the time evolution of cluster size distributions resulting from particle aggregation. Although it is formally a mass-conserving system, solutions may…
We study the asymptotic behavior, as $\gamma$ tends to infinity, of solutions for the homogeneous Dirichlet problem associated to singular semilinear elliptic equations whose model is $$ -\Delta u=\frac{f(x)}{u^\gamma}\,\text{ in }\Omega,…
We study the self-similar solutions of the equation \[ u_{t}-div(| \nabla u| ^{p-2}\nabla u)=0, \] in $\mathbb{R}^{N},$ when $p>2.$ We make a complete study of the existence and possible uniqueness of solutions of the form \[ u(x,t)=(\pm…
To model the dynamics of polymers formed through nucleation, elongated by polymerisation, shortened by depolymerisation and subject to aggregation reactions, we study a nonlinear integro-differential equation. Growth and shrinkage are…
The goal of this work is to present an approach to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules with a physical collision kernel which allows us to construct unique solutions to the initial value problem in a space of…
It is well known that for a large class of coagulation kernels, Smoluchowski coagulation equations have particular power law solutions which yield a constant flux of mass along all scales of the system. In this paper, we prove that for some…
This paper deals with the long-time behavior of solutions of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations describing formation of morphogen gradients, the concentration fields of molecules acting as spatial regulators of cell differentiation in…
Existence of mass-conserving weak solutions to the coagulation-fragmentation equation is established when the fragmentation mechanism produces an infinite number of fragments after splitting. The coagulation kernel is assumed to increase at…
This article investigates the question of sensitivity of the solutions of Smoluchowski equation on R_+^* with respect to parameters \lambda in the interaction kernel K^lambda. It is proved that the solution is a C^1 function of (t,lambda)…
Smoluchowski's coagulation equation is a mean-field model describing the growth of clusters by successive mergers. Since its derivation in 1916 it has been studied by several authors, using deterministic and stochastic approaches, with a…
We show the existence of self-similar solutions with constant finite mass to the time-fractional Porous-Medium Equation for all spatial dimensions $d \ge 1$ and all exponents $m>m_c=(d-2)_+/d$. This range is optimal. We find two types of…
The paper outlines an exact combinatorial approach to finite coagulating systems. In this approach, cluster sizes and time are discrete, and the binary aggregation alone governs the time evolution of the systems. By considering the growth…
The global existence of mass-conserving weak solutions to the Safronov-Dubovskii coagulation equation is shown for the coagulation kernels satisfying the at most linear growth for large sizes. In contrast to previous works, the proof mainly…
We study solutions of a Euclidean weighted porous medium equation when the weight behaves at spacial infinity like $|x|^{-\gamma}$, for $\gamma\in [0,2)$, and is allowed to be singular at the origin. In particular we show local-in-time…
This paper proves the existence of weak solutions to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules, when the initial data are chosen from the space of all Borel probability measures on R^3 with finite second moments…
In this article we establish for the first time the $C^s$ boundary regularity of solutions to nonlocal elliptic equations with kernels $K(y)\asymp |y|^{-n-2s}$. This was known to hold only when $K$ is homogeneous, and it is quite surprising…
We study similarity solutions to the multidimensional aggregation equation $u_t+\Div(uv)=0$, $v=-\nabla K*u$ with general power-law kernels $K(x)=|x|^\alpha,\alpha\in (2-d,2)$. We analyze the equation in different regimes of the parameter…
We consider the boundary value problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u+ u -\lambda e^u&=&0,\ u>0 & \mathrm{in}\ B_1(0)\\ \partial_\nu u&=&0&\mathrm{on}\ \partial B_1(0), \end{array}\right. $$ whose solutions correspond to steady…
Let $X$ be a separable Banach space endowed with a non-degenerate centered Gaussian measure $\mu$. The associated Cameron-Martin space is denoted by $H$. Let $\nu=e^{-U}\mu$, where $e^{-U}$ is a sufficiently regular weight and…