Effect of Initial Size Distribution on Aerosol Coagulation
Abstract
The effect of particle coagulation on an aerosol with a truncated Junge initial size distribution was calculated for arbitrary particle size and time by obtaining an exact analytical solution to the Smoluchowski equation. The solution exhibits a crossover from the Junge form to an asymptotic exponential form. The persistence of a Jung-type size distribution for atmospheric aerosols and smoke aerosols is shown to be consistent with coagulation theory.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.761
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhRvL..45..761M
- Keywords:
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- Aerosols;
- Atmospheric Composition;
- Particle Size Distribution;
- Asymptotic Methods;
- Coagulation;
- Distribution Functions;
- Numerical Integration;
- Geophysics;
- 82.70.Rr;
- Aerosols and foams