(Theme 2) Coagulation, branching processes, and random shock-wave dynamics
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 10:00am - 10:50am
Keller 3-180
Robert Pego (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Smoluchowski's coagulation equation is related in remarkable ways to models of random shock clustering and the merging of ancestral trees. I plan to discuss a) work with Iyer and Leger on criteria for the asymptotic self-similarity of clan size distributions in branching processes, and
b) how kinetic coagulation models are tied to Menon and Srinivasan's discoveries that indicate complete integrability for Burgers turbulence.
b) how kinetic coagulation models are tied to Menon and Srinivasan's discoveries that indicate complete integrability for Burgers turbulence.
MSC Code:
60J80
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