Laplacian instability of planar streamer ionization fronts - an example of pulled front analysis

Details Laplacian instability of planar streamer ionization fronts - an example of pulled front analysis Laplacian instability of planar streamer ionization fronts - an example of pulled front analysis

2007-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/0706.2088v2

J. Nonlinear Sci. 18, 551-590 (2008) ; Nonlinear Sci. 18, 551-590 (2008)

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00332-008-9028-8

Streamer ionization fronts are pulled fronts propagating into a linearly unstable state; the spatial decay of the initial condition of a planar front selects dynamically one specific long time attractor out of a continuous family. A transverse stability analysis has to take these features into account. In this paper we introduce a framework for this transverse stability analysis, involving stable and unstable manifolds in a weighted space. Within this framework, a numerical dynamical systems method for the calculation of the dispersion relation as an eigenvalue problem is defined and dispersion curves for different values of the electron diffusion constant and of the electric field ahead of the front are derived. Numerical solutions of the initial value problem confirm the eigenvalue calculations. The numerical work is complemented with analytical expressions for the dispersion relation in the limit of small and large wave numbers and with a fit formula for intermediate wave numbers. This empirical fit supports the conjecture that the smallest unstable wave length of the Laplacian instability is proportional to the diffusion length that characterizes the leading edge of the pulled ionization front.

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