Laurent Desvillettes and Klemens Fellner
Duality- and entropy methods in coagulation-fragmentation models
Pages: 215-263
Received: 12 April 2013
Accepted: 7 May 2013
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 45K05, 35B40, 35A01, 82D60.
Keywords: Coagulation-fragmentation model, gelation, saturation, duality method,
entropy method, global weak solution, large-time-behaviour, fast-reaction limit.
Abstract: This article presents a selected overview of the existence theory and qualitative analysis of coagulation-fragmentation models describing the formation and break-up of clusters/particles/polymers in various applications in physics, chemistry, astronomy and biology. In particular, we shall discuss recent results on spatially inhomogeneous coagulation-fragmentation models, which are obtained by duality methods and/or entropy methods. We shall show how a duality argument provides e.g. global-in-time L2-bounds, while the entropy method implies entropy related a priori estimates and explicit convergence to equilibrium.