The effects of fluid motion on oscillatory and chaotic fronts |
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Authors: | PM Vilela Desiderio A Vasquez |
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Institution: | 1.Departamento de Ciencias, Sección Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Av. Universitaria 1801,San Miguel,Perú;2.Department of Physics,Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne,Fort Wayne,USA |
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Abstract: | We study oscillatory and chaotic reaction fronts described by the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation coupled to different types of fluid motion. We first apply a Poiseuille flow on the fronts inside a two-dimensional slab. We show regions of period doubling transition to chaos for different values of the average speed of Poiseuille flow. We also analyze the effects of a convective flow due to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Here the front is a thin interface separating two fluids of different densities inside a two-dimensional vertical slab. Convection is caused by buoyancy forces across the front as the lighter fluid is under a heavier fluid. We first obtain oscillatory and chaotic solutions arising from instabilities intrinsic to the front. Then, we determine the changes on the solutions due to fluid motion. |
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