title: Self-similarity in random collision processes.
abstract: Kinetics of collision processes with linear mixing rules are investigated analytically. The velocity distribution becomes self-similar in the long-time limit and the similarity functions have algebraic or stretched exponential tails. The characteristic exponents are roots of transcendental equations and vary continuously with the mixing parameters. In the presence of conservation laws, the velocity distributions become universal.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699-5820, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: ben-Avraham
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ben-Naim
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lindenberg
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosas