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The dynamics of particle processes can be described by population balance equations which are governed by phenomena including growth, nucleation, breakage and aggregation. Estimating the kinetics of the aggregation phenomena from measured density data constitutes an ill-conditioned inverse problem. In this work, we focus on the aggregation problem and present an approach to estimate the aggregation kernel in discrete, low rank form from given (measured or simulated) data. The low-rank assumption for the kernel allows the application of fast techniques for the evaluation of the aggregation integral (\(\mathcal {O}(n\log n)\) instead of \(\mathcal {O}(n^{2})\) where n denotes the number of unknowns in the discretization) and reduces the dimension of the optimization problem, allowing for efficient and accurate kernel reconstructions. We provide and compare two approaches which we will illustrate in numerical tests.
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Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of this work by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under the Grant BO 4141/1-3 in the framework of the research priority program SPP 1679 “Dynamische Simulation vernetzter Feststoffprozesse”.
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Ahrens, R., Le Borne, S. Reconstruction of low-rank aggregation kernels in univariate population balance equations. Adv Comput Math 47, 39 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-021-09871-w
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