On the self-similar behaviour of coagulation systems with injection

Abstract

In this paper we prove the existence of a family of self-similar solutions for a class of coagulation equations with a constant flux of particles from the origin. These solutions are expected to describe the longtime asymptotics of Smoluchowski's coagulation equations with a time independent source of clusters concentrated in small sizes. The self-similar profiles are shown to be smooth, provided the coagulation kernel is also smooth. Moreover, the self-similar profiles are estimated from above and from below by $x^{-(\gamma+3)/2}$ as $x \to 0$, where $\gamma <1 $ is the homogeneity of the kernel, and are proven to decay at least exponentially as $x \to \infty$.