Well-posedness and large time behavior of a size-structured growth-coagulation-fragmentation model

Abstract

The existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to a size-structured growth-coagulation-fragmentation (GCF) equation with a renewal boundary condition are shown for a class of unbounded coagulation and fragmentation kernels. The existence proof is based on a weak compactness framework in the weighted $L^1$-space. This result extends the existence results of Banasiak and Lamb [14] and Ackleh et al. [2,4]. Furthermore, we establish a stability result and derive uniqueness as a direct consequence of it. Moreover, this study explores the large time behavior of weak solutions.