Author(s):
Costa, Fernando Pestana da 
Date: 1998
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/1480
Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade Aberta
Subject(s): Smoluchowski coagulation equations
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A finite-dimensional dynamical model for gelation in coagulation process
Description
We study a finite-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations derived from Smoluchowski’s coagulation equations and whose solutions mimic the behaviour of the nondensity-conserving (geling) solutions in those equations. The analytic and numerical studies of the finite-dimensional system reveals an interesting dynamic behaviour in several respects: Firstly, it suggests that some special geling solutions to Smoluchowski’s equations discovered by Leyvraz can have an important dynamic role in gelation studies, and, secondly, the dynamics is interesting in its own right with an attractor possessing an unexpected structure of equilibria and connecting orbits.
We study a finite-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations derived from Smoluchowski’s coagulation equations and whose solutions mimic the behaviour of the nondensity-conserving (geling) solutions in those equations. The analytic and numerical studies of the finite-dimensional system reveals an interesting dynamic behaviour in several respects: Firstly, it suggests that some special geling solutions to Smoluchowski’s equations discovered by Leyvraz can have an important dynamic role in gelation studies, and, secondly, the dynamics is interesting in its own right with an attractor possessing an unexpected structure of equilibria and connecting orbits.
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Language English
Language English
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