Analysis of combustion waves arising in the presence of a competitive endothermic reaction

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-31

  Sharples, J J ^a   Sidhu, H S ^a   McIntosh, A C ^b   Brindley, J ^b   Gubernov, V V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

combustion; endothermic reaction; reaction diffusion

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION WAVES; ENDOTHERMIC REACTIONS; EVANS FUNCTION; FINITE-ELEMENT; HEAT RELEASE; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PARAMETER VALUES; PREMIXED COMBUSTION; REACTION DIFFUSION SYSTEMS; REACTION FRONT; REACTION-DIFFUSION; SINGLE-STEP; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TRAVELLING WAVE SOLUTION; WAVE SPEED;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COMBUSTION; EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

REACTION RATES;

EID: 84856888179     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: 14643634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxr072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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