Evans function stability of non-adiabatic combustion waves

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

Volumn 460, Issue 2048, 2004, Pages 2415-2435

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Combustion waves; Evans function; Heat loss; Pulsating instabilities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PARAMETER; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 20944434683     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2004.1285     Document Type: Article

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