Influence of inhomogeneity on the nonlinear stabilization of acoustic vibrations of a heat releasing medium in a confined space (Q799207)

An investigation is made in the nonlinear approximation of the stability of a weakly inhomogeneous heat releasing gas that fills a channel of finite length with respect to acoustic vibrations propagating along its axis in the direction of the gradients of the steady parameters. It is shown that the spatial inhomogeneity of the gas leads to breakdown of the resonance of the excited acoustic vibrations, which in turn leads to a higher level of the steady vibrations compared with the case of a spatially homogeneous medium.