
doi: 10.1137/0149063
Summary: Pulsating solutions to a model of gasless condensed phase combustion are studied numerically as a function of a parameter \(\mu\), which is proportional to the nondimensional activation energy. Due to the exothermic reaction, a combustion wave propagates into the fresh fuel mixture. Below a critical value \(\mu_ 1\) the wave propagates at a uniform velocity. For \(\mu >\mu_ 1\), periodic pulsations occur of period \(T=T(\mu)\). That is, the velocity of the combustion wave increases and decreases periodically. The pulsations are sinusoidal for \(\mu\) near \(\mu_ 1\), and then develop into relaxation oscillations as \(\mu\) is increased. A transition to a doubly periodic (period 2T) solution branch is found at a value \(\mu_ 2>\mu_ 1\). Stable doubly periodic solutions can no longer be computed beyond a third critical point \(\mu_ 3>\mu_ 2\). For \(\mu >\mu_ 3\), there is a return to the T periodic solution branch, with an interval of bistability \((\mu^*<\mu <\mu_ 3\), with \(\mu_ 2<\mu^*<\mu_ 3)\) in which both singly and doubly periodic solutions stably coexist, each with its own domain of attraction.
Combustion, fuel mixture, Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics, period doubling, relaxation oscillations, gasless condensed phase combustion, combustion wave, adaptive pseudospectral method, Stable doubly periodic solutions, Chemically reacting flows
Combustion, fuel mixture, Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics, period doubling, relaxation oscillations, gasless condensed phase combustion, combustion wave, adaptive pseudospectral method, Stable doubly periodic solutions, Chemically reacting flows
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