Asymptotics of self-similar solutions to coagulation equations with product kernel

Details Asymptotics of self-similar solutions to coagulation equations with product kernel Asymptotics of self-similar solutions to coagulation equations with product kernel

2011-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/1103.2894v1

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Analysis of PDEs

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We consider mass-conserving self-similar solutions for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with kernel $K(\xi,\eta)= (\xi \eta)^{\lambda}$ with $\lambda \in (0,1/2)$. It is known that such self-similar solutions $g(x)$ satisfy that $x^{-1+2\lambda} g(x)$ is bounded above and below as $x \to 0$. In this paper we describe in detail via formal asymptotics the qualitative behavior of a suitably rescaled function $h(x)=h_{\lambda} x^{-1+2\lambda} g(x)$ in the limit $\lambda \to 0$. It turns out that $h \sim 1+ C x^{\lambda/2} \cos(\sqrt{\lambda} \log x)$ as $x \to 0$. As $x$ becomes larger $h$ develops peaks of height $1/\lambda$ that are separated by large regions where $h$ is small. Finally, $h$ converges to zero exponentially fast as $x \to \infty$. Our analysis is based on different approximations of a nonlocal operator, that reduces the original equation in certain regimes to a system of ODE.

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