Recent advances on the Smoluchowski coagulation equation under non-equilibrium conditions
By Alessia Nota
The Smoluchowski's coagulation equation is an integro-differential equation of kinetic type which provides a mean-field description for mass aggregation phenomena. In this talk I will present some recent results on the problem of existence or non-existence of stationary solutions, both for single and multi-component systems, under non-equilibrium conditions which are induced by the addition of a source term for small cluster sizes. The most striking feature of these stationary solutions is that, whenever they exist, the solutions to multi-component systems exhibit an unusual “spontaneous localization” phenomenon: they localize along a line in the composition space as the total size of the particles increase. This localization is a universal property of multicomponent systems and it has also been recently proved to occur in time dependent solutions to mass conserving coagulation equations.