Kinetic models for dust coagulation in interstellar clouds

Abstract

In this paper we propose some kinetic models which take into account different mechanisms of coagulation between two populations of dust particles inside in-terstellar nebulae, and we discuss their mathematical properties. These models are in general nonlinear; however, at the end of the paper we perform an ap-proximate procedure to obtain a linear transport equation even for the model which considers the most general mechanism of coagulation.

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