An oscillatory route to extinction for solid fuel combustion waves due to heat losses

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 454, Issue 1975, 1998, Pages 2015-2022

  Mercer, G N ^a   Weber, R O ^a   Sidhu, H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chaotic behaviour; Combustion; Extinction; Non adiabatic; Period doubling; Pulsating

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000175514     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1998.0246     Document Type: Article

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