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Temperature-dependent Smoluchowski equations describe the ballistic agglomeration. In contrast to the standard Smoluchowski equations for the evolution of cluster densities with constant rate coefficients, the temperature-dependent…
We study a ballistic agglomeration process in the reaction-controlled limit. Cluster densities obey an infinite set of Smoluchowski rate equations, with rates dependent on the average particle energy. The latter is the same for all cluster…
In this article we study an extension of Smoluchowski's discrete coagulation equation, where particle in- and output takes place. This model is frequently used to describe aggregation processes in combination with sedimentation of clusters.…
We generalize the model of transition-metal nanocluster growth in aqueous solution, proposed recently [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{87}, 022132 (2013)]. In order to model time evolution of the system, kinetic equations describing time dependence of…
This work outlines an exact combinatorial approach to finite coagulating systems through recursive equations and use of generating function method. In the classic approach the mean-field Smoluchowski coagulation is used. However, the…
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…
We introduce an extended Smoluchowski equation describing coagulation processes for which clusters of mass s grow between collisions with $ds/dt=As^\beta$. A physical example, dropwise condensation is provided, and its collision kernel K is…
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…
The Smoluchowski equation is a system of partial differential equations modelling the diffusion and binary coagulation of a large collection of tiny particles. The mass parameter may be indexed either by positive integers, or by positive…
We prove well-posedness of global solutions for a class of coagulation equations which exhibit the gelation phase transition. To this end, we solve an associated partial differential equation involving the generating functions before and…
Researchers have employed variations of the Smoluchowski coagulation equation to model a wide variety of both organic and inorganic phenomena and with relatively few known analytical solutions, numerical solutions play an important role in…
Smoluchowski's equation is a macroscopic description of a many particle system with coagulation and shattering interactions. We give a microscopic model of the system from which we derive this equation rigorously. Provided the existence of…
In this paper we prove that the time dependent solutions of a large class of Smoluchowski coagulation equations for multicomponent systems concentrate along a particular direction of the space of cluster compositions for long times. The…
In a recent series of papers, an exact combinatorial solution was claimed for a variant of the so-called Marcus--Lushnikov model of aggregation. In this model, a finite number of aggregates, are initially assumed to be present in the form…
Kinetic equations are introduced for the transition-metal nanocluster nucleation and growth mechanism, as proposed by Watzky and Finke. Equations of this type take the form of Smoluchowski coagulation equations supplemented with the terms…
The processes of simultaneous coagulation and Ostwald ripening of particles in the concluding stage of phase transformation are considered. We solve the integro-differential system of Smoluchowski-type kinetic and mass balance equations…
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…
We analyze a coupled system of evolution equations that describes the effect of thermal gradients on the motion and deposition of $N$ populations of colloidal species diffusing and interacting together through Smoluchowski production terms.…
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…
In this article we propose a new, explicit and easily implementable numerical method for approximating a class of semilinear stochastic evolution equations with non-globally Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. We establish strong…