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IJMMS 2004:49, 2641–2648 PII. S0161171204304084 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CONTINUUM MODEL OF THE TWO-COMPONENT BECKER-DÖRING EQUATIONS ALI REZA SOHEILI Received 3 April 2003 The process of collision between particles is a subject of interest in many fields of physics, astronomy, polymer physics, atmospheric physics, and colloid chemistry. If two types of particles are allowed to participate in the cluster coalescence, then the time evolution of the cluster distribution has been described by an infinite system of ordinary differential equations. In this paper, we describe the model with a second-order two-dimensional partial differential equation, as a continuum model. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 65M20, 82C80, 70F45. 1. Introduction. The Becker-Döring equations model the behavior of clusters of par- ticles when the coagulation and fragmentation done by only one particle may leave or join a cluster at a time [ 2]. The time evolution of the cluster distribution cr (t) has been described by the infinite system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) [1] r −1 ∞ 1 ˙ = J − J , r = 1, 2,..., (1.1) cr r −k,k r ,k 2 k=1 k=1 where Jr ,k = ar ,k cr ck −br ,k cr +k = Jk,r , and for r = 1, the first sum is omitted. Jr ,k is the net rate of converting the clusters with r -particles (r -clusters) to (r +k)-clusters, with nonnegative symmetric constants ar ,k and br ,k which de