A stability index for detonation waves in Majda's model for reacting flow

Details A stability index for detonation waves in Majda's model for reacting flow A stability index for detonation waves in Majda's model for reacting flow

2003-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/math/0306239v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

36 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physd.2004.01.036

Using Evans function techniques, we develop a stability index for weak and strong detonation waves analogous to that developed for shock waves in [GZ,BSZ], yielding useful necessary conditions for stability. Here, we carry out the analysis in the context of the Majda model, a simplified model for reacting flow; the method is extended to the full Navier-Stokes equations of reacting flow in [Ly,LyZ]. The resulting stability condition is satisfied for all nondegenerate, i.e., spatially exponentially decaying, weak and strong detonations of the Majda model in agreement with numerical experiments of [CMR] and analytical results of [Sz,LY] for a related model of Majda and Rosales. We discuss also the role in the ZND limit of degenerate, subalgebraically decaying weak detonation and (for a modified, ``bump-type'' ignition function) deflagration profiles, as discussed in [GS.1-2] for the full equations.

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