Enhancement of the traveling front speeds in reaction-diffusion equations with advection (Q5942603)

The authors investigate the following question: which characteristic of the ambient fluid flow is responsible for burning rate enhancement? Note that the bulk burning rate \[ V(t)=\int_\Omega T_t(x,y,t) {dxdy \over H} \] and its time average \[ \langle V\rangle_t={1\over t}\int^t_0 V(s)ds, \] where \(T\) denotes the temperature, satisfy the corresponding PDE. Here they consider a general class of reaction rates \(f(T)\) that are either of the ignition or general KPP type, and establish lower bounds for \(V(t)\) for percolating flows that are periodic in space. Another interesting result of the paper concerns cellular flows with closed streamlines.