Title
The effects of fluid motion on oscillatory and chaotic fronts
Date Issued
01 November 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
We study oscillatory and chaotic reaction fronts described by the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation coupled to different types of fluid motion. We first apply a Poiseuille flow on the fronts inside a two-dimensional slab. We show regions of period doubling transition to chaos for different values of the average speed of Poiseuille flow. We also analyze the effects of a convective flow due to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Here the front is a thin interface separating two fluids of different densities inside a two-dimensional vertical slab. Convection is caused by buoyancy forces across the front as the lighter fluid is under a heavier fluid. We first obtain oscillatory and chaotic solutions arising from instabilities intrinsic to the front. Then, we determine the changes on the solutions due to fluid motion.
Start page
2563
End page
2572
Volume
225
Issue
13-14
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de plasmas y fluídos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84998694540
Source
European Physical Journal: Special Topics
ISSN of the container
19516355
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