Effect of a columnar defect on the shape of slow-combustion fronts

Details Effect of a columnar defect on the shape of slow-combustion fronts Effect of a columnar defect on the shape of slow-combustion fronts

2003-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307231v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

7 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.68.051103

We report experimental results for the behavior of slow-combustion fronts in the presence of a columnar defect with excess or reduced driving, and compare them with those of mean-field theory. We also compare them with simulation results for an analogous problem of driven flow of particles with hard-core repulsion (ASEP) and a single defect bond with a different hopping probability. The difference in the shape of the front profiles for excess vs. reduced driving in the defect, clearly demonstrates the existence of a KPZ-type of nonlinear term in the effective evolution equation for the slow-combustion fronts. We also find that slow-combustion fronts display a faceted form for large enough excess driving, and that there is a corresponding increase then in the average front speed. This increase in the average front speed disappears at a non-zero excess driving in agreement with the simulated behavior of the ASEP model.

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