The Erpenbeck high frequency instability theorem for Zeldovitch-von Neumann-Döring detonations

DOI10.1007/S00205-011-0472-5zbMATH Open1427.76081arXiv1102.0581OpenAlexW3101510877MaRDI QIDQ2276287FDOQ2276287

Authors: Mark Williams, Kevin Zumbrun, Olivier Lafitte 

Publication date: 5 November 2012

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The rigorous study of spectral stability for strong detonations was begun by J.J. Erpenbeck in [Er1]. Working with the Zeldovitch-von Neumann-D"oring (ZND) model, which assumes a finite reaction rate but ignores effects like viscosity corresponding to second order derivatives, he used a normal mode analysis to define a stability function $V(au,eps)$ whose zeros in $Reau>0$ correspond to multidimensional perturbations of a steady detonation profile that grow exponentially in time. Later in a remarkable paper [Er3] he provided strong evidence, by a combination of formal and rigorous arguments, that for certain classes of steady ZND profiles, unstable zeros of $V$ exist for perturbations of sufficiently large transverse wavenumber $eps$, even when the von Neumann shock, regarded as a gas dynamical shock, is uniformly stable in the sense defined (nearly twenty years later) by Majda. In spite of a great deal of later numerical work devoted to computing the zeros of $V(au,eps)$, the paper cite{Er3} remains the only work we know of that presents a detailed and convincing theoretical argument for detecting them. The analysis in [Er3] points the way toward, but does not constitute, a mathematical proof that such unstable zeros exist. In this paper we identify the mathematical issues left unresolved in [Er3] and provide proofs, together with certain simplifications and extensions, of the main conclusions about stability and instability of detonations contained in that paper. The main mathematical problem, and our principal focus here, is to determine the precise asymptotic behavior as $epsoinfty$ of solutions to a linear system of ODEs in $x$, depending on $eps$ and a complex frequency $au$ as parameters, with turning points $x_{\ast }$ on the half-line $[0,infty)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0581

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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