A free boundary problem stemmed from combustion theory. II: Stability, instability and bifurcation results. (Q1856902)

[For Part I, cf. ibid. 274, 505--535 (2002; Zbl 1037.35105).] The problem under consideration is to find \(\Theta\), \(S\), \(\xi\) such that \[ \begin{alignedat}{2} \Theta_t(t,\eta,y)&=\Delta \Theta(t,\eta,y), &&\quad t\geq 0,\;| y| <l,\;\eta<\xi(t,y), \\ \Theta(t,\eta,y)&=1, &&\quad t\geq 0,\;| y| <l,\;\eta\geq \xi(t,y),\\ S_t(t,\eta,y) &=\Delta S(t,\eta,y) -\Delta\Theta(t,\eta,y), &&\quad t\geq 0,\;| y| <l,\;\eta\neq \xi(t,y),\\ \left[\Theta_\nu \right] (t,\xi(t,y),y) + \exp\left(\;S(t,\xi(t,y),y)\right)&=0, &&\quad t\geq 0,\;| y| <l,\\ \left[(S-\lambda \Theta)_\nu \right] (t,\xi(t,y),y) &=0, &&\quad t\geq 0,\;| y| <l,\\ \left[ \Theta\right] (t,\xi(t,y),y)= \left[ S \right] (t,\xi(t,y),y) &=0, &&\quad t\geq 0,\;| y| <l,\\ D_y \Theta (t,\eta,\pm l) =D_y S (t,\eta, \pm l) &=0, &&\quad t\geq 0,\;\eta\neq \xi(t,\pm l),\\ D_y\xi(t,\pm l)&=0, &&\quad t\geq 0. \end{alignedat} \] The author investigates the stability with respect to smooth two-dimensional perturbations and in dependence of the parameter \(\lambda\) of the planar travelling wave solution \(\left(\Theta(t,x),S(t,x),\xi(t)\right)\) \(=\left(\Theta^0(x+t), S^0(x+t),-t\right)\), where \[ \Theta^0(x)=\begin{cases} e^x, &x<0, \\ 1, &x\geq 0, \end{cases} \qquad S^0(x)=\begin{cases} \lambda x e^x, &x<0, \\ 0, &x\geq 0. \end{cases} \]