Title
Instabilities in cubic reaction–diffusion fronts advected by a Poiseuille flow
Date Issued
01 April 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
We study reaction fronts inside a two-dimensional domain subject to a Poiseuille flow. We focus on a cubic reaction–diffusion system with two chemicals having different diffusion coefficients. We solve numerically the system of equations for different values of the domain width finding transitions between traveling steady states. These transitions are also observed by changing the average velocity of the external Poiseuille flow. The flat front solutions are obtained using the equations in a one-dimensional region, and extending them to two-dimensions. These solutions result in either stable or unstable fronts. We carry out a linear stability analysis for flat fronts obtaining the corresponding growth rates of small perturbations. The application of a Poiseuille flow in the same direction of the propagating front gives rise to stable symmetric fronts, whereas in the opposite direction allows the formation of stable symmetric and asymmetric fronts. For strong enough flow velocities or wide widths, the fronts become oscillatory. Increasing the driving parameters results in intermittent bursts in the oscillations.
Start page
505
End page
511
Volume
231
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85121305845
Source
European Physical Journal: Special Topics
ISSN of the container
19516355
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by a grant from the Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación (DGI 2019-1-0065) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
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