Mathematics – Analysis of PDEs
Scientific paper
2004-09-09
Mathematics
Analysis of PDEs
Scientific paper
10.1088/0951-7715/18/4/003
We study a reaction-diffusion equation in the cylinder $\Omega = \mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T}^m$, with combustion-type reaction term without ignition temperature cutoff, and in the presence of a periodic flow. We show that if the reaction function decays as a power of $T$ larger than three as $T\to 0$ and the initial datum is small, then the flame is extinguished -- the solution quenches. If, on the other hand, the power of decay is smaller than three or initial datum is large, then quenching does not happen, and the burning region spreads linearly in time. This extends results of Aronson-Weinberger for the no-flow case. We also consider shear flows with large amplitude and show that if the reaction power-law decay is larger than three and the flow has only small plateaux (connected domains where it is constant), then any compactly supported initial datum is quenched when the flow amplitude is large enough (which is not true if the power is smaller than three or in the presence of a large plateau). This extends results of Constantin-Kiselev-Ryzhik for combustion with ignition temperature cutoff. Our work carries over to the case $\Omega = \mathbb{R}^n\times\mathbb{T}^m$, when the critical power is $1 + 2/n$, as well as to certain non-periodic flows.
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