Convective Stabilization of a Laplacian Moving Boundary Problem with Kinetic Undercooling

DOI10.1137/070683908zbMATH Open1137.35081arXivnlin/0606048OpenAlexW2108191554MaRDI QIDQ5451640FDOQ5451640

Authors: Ute Ebert, Bernard Meulenbroek, Lothar Schäfer 

Publication date: 27 March 2008

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the shape stability of disks moving in an external Laplacian field in two dimensions. The problem is motivated by the motion of ionization fronts in streamer-type electric breakdown. It is mathematically equivalent to the motion of a small bubble in a Hele-Shaw cell with a regularization of kinetic undercooling type, namely a mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary condition for the Laplacian field on the moving boundary. Using conformal mapping techniques, linear stability analysis of the uniformly translating disk is recast into a single PDE which is exactly solvable for certain values of the regularization parameter. We concentrate on the physically most interesting exactly solvable and non-trivial case. We show that the circular solutions are linearly stable against smooth initial perturbations. In the transformation of the PDE to its normal hyperbolic form, a semigroup of automorphisms of the unit disk plays a central role. It mediates the convection of perturbations to the back of the circle where they decay. Exponential convergence to the unperturbed circle occurs along a unique slow manifold as time $toinfty$. Smooth temporal eigenfunctions cannot be constructed, but excluding the far back part of the circle, a discrete set of eigenfunctions does span the function space of perturbations. We believe that the observed behaviour of a convectively stabilized circle for a certain value of the regularization parameter is generic for other shapes and parameter values. Our analytical results are illustrated by figures of some typical solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0606048

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zbMATH Keywords

moving boundariesLaplacian growthkinetic undercoolingstreamer dischargesconvective stabilization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Space charge waves (78A20)

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