Self-similarity and the scaling attractor for models of coagulation and clustering

Robert Pego (Carnegie Mellon University)

Thursday 6th November, 2008 15:00-16:00 204

Abstract

We study limiting behavior of rescaled size distributions in several models of clustering or coagulation dynamics, `solvable' in the sense that the Laplace transform converts them into nonlinear PDE. The scaling analysis that emerges has many connections with the classical limit theorems of probability theory, and a surprising application to the study of shock clustering in the inviscid Burgers equation with random-walk initial data. I'll focus on recent progress regarding a `min-driven' clustering model related to domain coarsening dynamics in the Allen-Cahn equation.

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