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Local properties of self-similar solutions to Smoluchowski’s coagulation equation with sum kernels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2007

Nicolas Fournier
Affiliation:
Institut Elie Cartan–Nancy, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre–lès–Nancy cedex, France (fournier@iecn.u-nancy.fr)
Philippe Laurençot
Affiliation:
Mathématiques pour l’Industrie et la Physique, CNRS UMR 5640, Université Paul Sabatier–Toulouse3, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France (laurenco@mip.ups-tlse.fr)

Abstract

The regularity of the scaling profiles ψ to Smoluchowski’s coagulation equation is studied when the coagulation kernel K is given by K(x, y) = xλ + yλ with λ∈ (0, 1). More precisely, ψ is C1-smooth on (0,∞) and decays exponentially fast for large x. Furthermore, the singular behaviour of ψ(x) as x → 0 is identified, thus giving a rigorous proof of physical conjectures.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2006

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