High-Mach-number combustion

Technical Report · Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:7250755

Majda,

Recent developments in the mathematical theory of high-Mach-number combustion are presented. The phenomena in this regime are enormously complex and the mechanisms responsible for the variety of physical phenomena are poorly understood. The current advances in the mathematical theory combine asymptotic methods, careful numerics, qualitative modelling, and rigorous proofs for important model problems as well as an interplay with the documented experimental literature. This paper attempts to retain the flavor of these research efforts. Partial contents: The Theory and Structure for Planar Detonation Waves and an Instructive Qualitative Model; Quantitative Asymptotic Modelling of Nonlinear Wave - Kinetic Interactions in Reacting Gases; Instabilities in Detonations and Complex Wave Bifurcations.

• Research Organization: Princeton Univ., NJ (USA). Dept. of Mathematics
• OSTI ID: 7250755
• Report Number(s): AD-A-171182/9/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400800* -- Combustion
Pyrolysis
& High-Temperature Chemistry
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
DETONATION WAVES
FLUIDS
GASES
KINETICS
MACH NUMBER
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
OXIDATION
REACTION KINETICS
SHOCK WAVES
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
VELOCITY