| Abstract: | The kinetic behavior of an n-species (n ≥ 3) aggregation-annihilation chain reaction model is studied. In this model, an irreversible aggregation reaction occurs between any two clusters of the same species, and an irreversible complete annihilation reaction occurs only between two species with adjacent number. Based on the rnean-field theory, we investigate the rate equations of the process with constant reaction rates to obtain the asymptotic solutions of the clustermass distributions for the system. The results show that the kinetic behavior of the system not only depends crucially on the ratio of the aggregation rate I to the annihilation rate J, but also has relation with the initial concentration of each species and the species number's odevity. We find that the cluster-mass distribution of each species obeys always a scaling law. The scaling exponents may strongly depend on the reaction rates for most cases, however, for the case in which the ratio of the aggregation rate to the annihilation rate is equal to a certain value, the scaling exponents are only dependent on the initial concentrations of the reactants. |
