Modelling Coagulation Systems: A Stochastic Approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a stochastic modeling framework for coagulating aerosol systems, capable of describing various mesoscopic properties and unifying different approaches through a generalized storage model.

Contribution

It develops a novel stochastic approach for coagulation systems that generalizes existing birth-and-death models using a storage formalism.

Findings

Unified stochastic framework for aerosol coagulation

Application of storage model to monomer count in clusters

Generalization of birth-and-death processes

Abstract

A general stochastic approach to the description of coagulating aerosol system is developed. As the object of description one can consider arbitrary mesoscopic values (number of aerosol clusters, their size etc). The birth-and-death formalism for a number of clusters can be regarded as a partial case of the generalized storage model. An application of the storage model to the number of monomers in a cluster is discussed.