Weakly nonlinear asymptotics of the kappa-theta model of cellular flames: the Q-S equation

  • Gregory I. Sivashinsky

    Tel-Aviv University, Israel
  • Michael L. Frankel

    Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
  • Josephus Hulshof

    Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Claude-Michel Brauner

    Université de Bordeaux I, Talence, France

Abstract

We consider a quasi-steady version of the model of flame front dynamics introduced in \cite{FGS03} . In this case the mathematical model reduces to a single integro-differential equation. We show that a periodic problem for the latter equation is globally well-posed in Sobolev spaces of periodic functions. We prove that near the instability threshold the solutions of the equation are arbitrarily close to these of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation on a fixed time interval if the evolution starts from close configurations. We present numerical simulations that illustrate the theoretical results, and also demonstrate the ability of the quasi-steady equation to generate chaotic cellular dynamics.

Cite this article

Gregory I. Sivashinsky, Michael L. Frankel, Josephus Hulshof, Claude-Michel Brauner, Weakly nonlinear asymptotics of the kappa-theta model of cellular flames: the Q-S equation. Interfaces Free Bound. 7 (2005), no. 2, pp. 131–146

DOI 10.4171/IFB/117