Hidden dynamics and the origin of pulsating waves in Self-propagating High temperature Synthesis

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Authors: Régis Monneau, Georg S. Weiss 

Publication date: 19 May 2006

Abstract: We derive the precise limit of SHS in the high activation energy scaling suggested by B.J. Matkowksy-G.I. Sivashinsky in 1978 and by A. Bayliss-B.J. Matkowksy-A.P. Aldushin in 2002. In the time-increasing case the limit coincides with the Stefan problem for supercooled water {em with spatially inhomogeneous coefficients}. In general it is a nonlinear forward-backward parabolic equation {em with discontinuous hysteresis term}. In the first part of our paper we give a complete characterization of the limit problem in the case of one space dimension. In the second part we construct in any finite dimension a rather large family of pulsating waves for the limit problem. In the third part, we prove that for constant coefficients the limit problem in any finite dimension {em does not admit non-trivial pulsating waves}. The combination of all three parts strongly suggests a relation between the pulsating waves constructed in the present paper and the numerically observed pulsating waves for finite activation energy in dimension $nge1$ and therefore provides a possible and surprising explanation for the phenomena observed. All techniques in the present paper (with the exception of the remark in the Appendix) belong to the category far-from-equilibrium-analysis/far-from-bifurcation-point-analysis.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22) Combustion (80A25)

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