Abstract:We study a spatial version of the Smoluchowski coagulation equation in which particles carry both an integer mass and a spatial location, and coagulate according to a mass-space product kernel. After coagulation, the resulting particle inherits the sum of the parent masses and a single spatial location. We provide a recursive formula for the solution and show that, while the first local mass moments are conserved up to gelation time at each location, the second local mass moments evolve according to a closed system of differential equations. When the spatial part of the kernel is of Mercer type, we further show that this system reduces to a replicator equation under a time rescaling and normalisation. We then use the fact that the replicator equation admits monotone functionals to quantify how spatial heterogeneity influences the rate of gelation and derive bounds on the gelation time. We also discuss the implications of these results for several important classes of Mercer kernels, including radial, diffusion, and translation-invariant kernels.
From: Elena Magnanini [view email]
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