TY - JOUR
T1 - A non-linear thermal wave in a reacting medium
AU - Rosenau, Philip
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the referee for this constructive remarks. This work was supported in part by the Space Environment Laboratory, NOAA/ERL (Boulder) under purchase order NA80RAA 02245 and in part by U.S. Air Force contract AFOSR-76-2881.
PY - 1982/5
Y1 - 1982/5
N2 - Explicit examples are constructed of an impulsively initiated thermal wave in a reacting medium, with the volumetric heating and absorption being non-linear functions of the temperature-a typical situation in plasma physics. The different patterns of propagation exhibit, among other things, an unlimited outward motion, an extinction through shrinking within a finite time or an oscillatory motion. In addition it is also possible to generate a stationary thermal wave which has a finite width.
AB - Explicit examples are constructed of an impulsively initiated thermal wave in a reacting medium, with the volumetric heating and absorption being non-linear functions of the temperature-a typical situation in plasma physics. The different patterns of propagation exhibit, among other things, an unlimited outward motion, an extinction through shrinking within a finite time or an oscillatory motion. In addition it is also possible to generate a stationary thermal wave which has a finite width.
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U2 - 10.1016/0167-2789(82)90055-0
DO - 10.1016/0167-2789(82)90055-0
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AN - SCOPUS:49049135182
VL - 5
SP - 136
EP - 144
JO - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
JF - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
SN - 0167-2789
IS - 1
ER -