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A finite-volume method for the steady, compressible, reacting, turbulent Navier-Stokes equations is developed by using a steady-state preserving splitting scheme for the stiff source terms in chemical reaction. Laminar and turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yalu Zhu , Feng Liu , William A. Sirignano

We study the planar front solution for a class of reaction diffusion equations in multidimensional space in the case when the essential spectrum of the linearization in the direction of the front touches the imaginary axis. At the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Anna Ghazaryan , Yuri Latushkin , Xinyao Yang

We propose a new phenomenological approach for describing the dynamics of wetting front propagation in porous media. Unlike traditional models, the proposed approach is based on dynamic nature of the relation between capillary pressure and…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Mitkov , Daniel M. Tartakovsky , C. Larrabee Winter

How locally injected turbulence, spreads in space is investigated with direct numerical simulations. We consider a turbulent flow in a long channel generated by a forcing that is localised in space. The forcing is such that it does not…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-18 Alexandros Alexakis

The morphology of flame fronts propagating in reactive systems comprised of randomly positioned, point-like sources is studied. The solution of the temperature field and the initiation of new sources is implemented using the superposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-19 Fredric Lam , XiaoCheng Mi , Andrew J. Higgins

The problem of flame propagation is studied as an example of unstable fronts that wrinkle on many scales is studied. The analytic tool of pole expansion in the complex plane is emloyed to address the interaction of the unstable growth…

adap-org · Physics 2011-08-19 Zeev Olami , Barak Galanti , Oleg Kupervasser , Itamar Procaccia

We study evolution of pulses propagating through focusing nonlinear media. Small disturbance on the smooth initial non-uniform background leads to formation of the region of strong nonlinear oscillations. We develop here an asymptotic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-03-14 A. M. Kamchatnov , D. V. Shaykin

In this paper we study the invasion fronts of spatially periodic monotone reaction-diffusion systems in a multi-dimensional setting. We study the pulsating traveling waves that connect the trivial equilibrium, for which all components of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Liangliang Deng , Arnaud Ducrot , Quentin Griette

The influence of turbulent effects on a fluid flow through a (pseudo) porous media is studied by numerically solving the set of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with the $\kappa$-$\epsilon$ model for turbulence. The spatial domains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. H. M. Vasconcelos , U. M. S. Costa , M. P. Almeida

For scalar reaction-diffusion equations, a traveling wave is a front which transforms a higher energy state to a lower energy state. The same is true for a system of equations with a gradient structure. At the core of this phenomenon, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Chao-Nien Chen , Y. S. Choi

Heavy inertial particles transported by a turbulent flow are shown to concentrate in the regions where an advected passive scalar, such as temperature, displays very strong front-like discontinuities. This novel effect is responsible for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jeremie Bec , Holger Homann , Giorgio Krstulovic

Premixed flames are susceptible to hydrodynamic and thermodiffusive instabilities that wrinkle the flame front and lead to complex multiscale patterns. They strongly impact the flame propagation and dynamics, increasing the speed of a…

The dynamics of two-dimensional thin premixed flames is addressed in the framework of mathematical models where the flow field on either side of the front is piecewise incompressible and vorticity-free. Flames confined in channels with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-27 G. Joulin , B. Denet , H. El-Rabii

Propagating fronts arising from bistable reaction-diffusion equations are a purely deterministic effect. Stochastic reaction-diffusion processes also show front propagation which coincides with the deterministic effect in the limit of small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Khain , Y. T. Lin , L. M. Sander

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

Recent studies have shown that in the presence of noise both fronts propagating into a metastable state and so-called pushed fronts propagating into an unstable state, exhibit diffusive wandering about the average position. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrea Rocco , Jaume Casademunt , Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos

Diffusion of particles in velocity space undergoing turbulent field was extensively studied in the problem of warm beam relaxation. Under low field intensities the diffusion is described by the Fokker-Planck equation with the diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Zagorodny , Volodymyr Zasenko , Jan Weiland

The problem of cosmic-ray scattering in the turbulent electromagnetic fields of the interstellar medium and the solar wind is of great importance due to the variety of applications of the resulting diffusion coefficients. Examples are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Tautz

Waves in excitable media can be treated by a simple geometric theory. The propagation velocity is assumed known and evolution of wave fronts is determined by elementary physical principles (Fermat's principle, Huygens' principle). Based on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristof Kaly-Kullai

A classification of dynamical systems in terms of their variational properties is reviewed. Within this classification, front propagation is discussed in a non-gradient relaxational potential flow. The model is motivated by transient…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-09-08 M. San Miguel , R. Montagne , A. Amengual , E. Hernandez-Garcia