Combustion fronts in porous media

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2175-2198

  Da Mota, J ^a   Dantas, W ^b   Marchesin, D ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c IMPA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Combustion; Porous media; Traveling waves; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

HEAT LOSSES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

TRAVELING WAVES;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0036665277     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139999347816     Document Type: Article

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