A combustion model with unbounded thermal conductivity and reactant diffusivity in non-smooth domains.
A description of blow-up for the solid fuel ignition model
A mathematical analysis of thermal explosions.
A mixed semilinear parabolic problem from combustion theory.
A one-dimensional free boundary problem arising in combustion theory.
A second-order multi-fluid model for evaporating sprays
The aim of this paper is to present a method using both the ideas of sectional approach and moment methods in order to accurately simulate evaporation phenomena in gas-droplets flows. Using the underlying kinetic interpretation of the sectional method [Y. Tambour, Combust. Flame 60 (1985) 15–28] exposed in [F. Laurent and M. Massot, Combust. Theory Model. 5 (2001) 537–572], we propose an extension of this approach based on a more accurate representation of the droplet size number density in each...
A second-order multi-fluid model for evaporating sprays
The aim of this paper is to present a method using both the ideas of sectional approach and moment methods in order to accurately simulate evaporation phenomena in gas-droplets flows. Using the underlying kinetic interpretation of the sectional method [Y. Tambour, Combust. Flame60 (1985) 15–28] exposed in [F. Laurent and M. Massot, Combust. Theory Model.5 (2001) 537–572], we propose an extension of this approach based on a more accurate representation of the droplet size number density in each...
An approximate nonlinear projection scheme for a combustion model
The paper deals with the numerical resolution of the convection-diffusion system which arises when modeling combustion for turbulent flow. The considered model is of compressible turbulent reacting type where the turbulence-chemistry interactions are governed by additional balance equations. The system of PDE’s, that governs such a model, turns out to be in non-conservation form and usual numerical approaches grossly fail in the capture of viscous shock layers. Put in other words, classical finite...
An approximate nonlinear projection scheme for a combustion model
The paper deals with the numerical resolution of the convection-diffusion system which arises when modeling combustion for turbulent flow. The considered model is of compressible turbulent reacting type where the turbulence-chemistry interactions are governed by additional balance equations. The system of PDE's, that governs such a model, turns out to be in non-conservation form and usual numerical approaches grossly fail in the capture of viscous shock layers. Put in other words, classical finite...
Anylysis of a simplified model of drop combustion.
Applications of the bifurcation theory to evaluating critical conditions of the thermal explosion
Behaviour of global solutions for a system of reaction-diffusion equations from combustion theory
We are concerned with the boundedness and large time behaviour of the solution for a system of reaction-diffusion equations modelling complex consecutive reactions on a bounded domain under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. Using the techniques of E. Conway, D. Hoff and J. Smoller [3] we also show that the bounded solution converges to a constant function as t → ∞. Finally, we investigate the rate of this convergence.
Characteristic phenomena in combustion.
Combustion in hydraulically resisted flows.
The effects of hydraulic resistance on premixed gas combustion in tubes and inert porous beds are discussed on the basis of recent research. It is found that the hydraulic resistance causes a gradual precompression and preheating of the unburned gas adjacent to the advancing deflagration which may lead (after an extended induction period) to a localized thermal explosion triggering an abrupt transition from deglagrative to detonative combustion. The hydraulic resistance has a profound effect also...
Compact attractors for a Stefan problem with kinetics.
Computation of bifurcated branches in a free boundary problem arising in combustion theory
Computation of bifurcated branches in a free boundary problem arising in combustion theory
We consider a parabolic 2D Free Boundary Problem, with jump conditions at the interface. Its planar travelling-wave solutions are orbitally stable provided the bifurcation parameter does not exceed a critical value . The latter is the limit of a decreasing sequence of bifurcation points. The paper deals with the study of the 2D bifurcated branches from the planar branch, for small k. Our technique is based on the elimination of the unknown front, turning the problem into a fully nonlinear...
Convexity and uniqueness in a free boundary problem arising in combustion theory.
We consider solutions to a free boundary problem for the heat equation, describing the propagation of flames. Suppose there is a bounded domain Ω ⊂ QT = Rn x (0,T) for some T > 0 and a function u > 0 in Ω such thatut = Δu, in Ω,u = 0 and |∇u| = 1, on Γ := ∂Ω ∩ QT,u(·,0) = u0, on Ω0,where Ω0 is a given domain in Rn and u0 is a positive and continuous function in Ω0, vanishing on ∂Ω0. If Ω0 is convex and u0 is concave in Ω0, then we show that (u,Ω) is unique and the time sections...
Eventual monotonicity and convergence to travelling fronts for the solutions of parabolic equations in cylinders
Existence of pulsating waves in a model of flames in sprays
A one-dimensional system describing the propagation of low Mach number flames in sprays is studied. We show that pulsating waves may exist when the droplet distribution in the unburnt region is spatially periodic. The range of possible propagation speeds may be either bounded or unbounded, depending on the threshold temperatures of the burning and vaporization rates.