On autoignition of co-flow laminar jets (Q2829444)

The authors analyze a mathematical model accounting for the thermal runaway followed by ignition in laminar jets. After a change of variables and unknowns through an adimensionalization process, they consider the system of parabolic equations \(\theta _{\zeta }=\theta _{\xi \xi }+\frac{1}{\xi } \theta _{\xi }\) for \((\xi ,\zeta )\in (0,\lambda )\times (0,\mu )\) and \( \theta _{\zeta }=\kappa (\theta _{\xi \xi }+\frac{1}{\xi }\theta _{\xi })\) for \((\xi ,\zeta )\in (\lambda ,\Lambda )\times (0,\mu )\), where \(\theta \) is the scaled temperature inside the jet. The compatibility conditions \( \kappa \theta _{\xi }^{+}-\theta _{\xi }^{-}=\exp (-\theta )\) and \(\theta ^{+}=\theta ^{-}\) are imposed on the interface \(\{\lambda \}\times (0,\mu )\) . Boundary and initial conditions are also imposed. The main result of the paper proves the existence of a unique weak solution \(\theta (\xi ,\zeta )\) to this problem, provided \(\mu <\zeta ^{\ast }\) for some positive and finite \(\zeta ^{\ast }(\kappa ,\Lambda ,\lambda )\). Further properties of this solution are proved and a blow-up phenomenon is proved if \(\mu \geq \zeta ^{\ast }\). For the proof of the existence and uniqueness result, the author use a parabolic comparison principle, the parabolic Hopf Lemma which allows proving the nonnegativity and the monotonicity of the solution, and direct computations. The authors illustrate their results with figures issued from numerical simulations. The paper ends with the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the solution when \(\lambda ,\Lambda \rightarrow \infty \). The authors here especially focus on the blow-up phenomenon for which they characterize the blow-up position \(\zeta _{\infty }^{\ast }\) in a more explicit way. The proof of this asymptotic behavior is obtained using scaling arguments.