Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar

University of Michigan

Winter 2009
Friday, 10 April, 3:10-4:00pm, 1084 East Hall

Self-similarity and the Scaling Attractor for Models of Coagulation and Clustering

Bob Pego

Carnegie Mellon University


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 an 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.