FLOCCULATION: A GENERAL AGGREGATION-FRAGMENTATION FRAMEWORK
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flocculation
kinetic equations
aggregation-fragmentation

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Sheremet, A., Sahin, C., & Manning, A. J. (2017). FLOCCULATION: A GENERAL AGGREGATION-FRAGMENTATION FRAMEWORK. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(35), sediment.27. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v35.sediment.27

Abstract

We present a brief review of the key assumptions at the basis of the kinetic description of aggregation-fragmentation processes. The goal is to provide a consistent foundation for using the aggregation-fragmentation equation as a framework for modeling flocculation. The derivation presented here is illustrated using a simple form of the equation that describes the dynamics of a 3-class distribution subject to elementary collisions of order 2, with arbitrary interaction coefficients.
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