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  • Dynamics of a Non-Autonomous ODE System Occurring in Coagulation Theory
    Publication . Costa, Fernando Pestana da; Sasportes, Rafael
    We consider a constant coefficient coagulation equation with Becker–D¨oring type interactions and power law input of monomers J1(t)=αtω, with α > 0 and ω>−1 2 . For this infinite dimensional system we prove solutions converge to similarity profiles as t and j converge to infinity in a similarity way, namely with either j/ς or (j −ς)/√ς constants, where ς =ς(t) is a function of t only. This work generalizes to the non-autonomous case a recent result of da Costa et al. (2004). Markov Processes Relat. Fields 12, 367–398. and provides a rigorous derivation of formal results obtained by Wattis J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37, 7823–7841. The main part of the approach is the analysis of a bidimensional non-autonomous system obtained through an appropriate change of variables; this is achieved by the use of differential inequalities and qualitative theory methods. The results about rate of convergence of solutions of the bidimensional system thus obtained are fed into an integral formula representation for the solutions of the infinite dimensional system which is then estimated by an adaptation of methods used by da Costa et al. (2004). Markov Processes Relat. Fields 12, 367–398.
  • Convergence to self-similarity in an addition model with power-like time-dependent input of monomers
    Publication . Costa, Fernando Pestana da; Sasportes, Rafael; Pinto, João Teixeira
    In this note we extend the results published in Ref. 1 to a coagulation system with Becker-Doring type interactions and time-dependent input of monomers $J_{1}(t)$ of power–like type: $J_{1}(t)/(\alpha t^{\omega }) \rightarrow 1$ as $t \rightarrow \infty$, with $\alpha > 0$ and $\omega > − \frac{1}{2}$. The general framework of the proof follows Ref. 1 but a different strategy is needed at a number of points.