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The stimulated Raman scattering instability in a fully degenerate electron plasma is studied applying relativistic hydrodynamic and Maxwell equations. We demonstrated that the instability develops for weakly as well as strongly relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 G. T. Chanturia , V. I. Berezhiani , S. M. Mahajan

We investigate the numerical stability of thermonuclear detonations in 1D accelerated reactive shocks and 2D binary collisions of equal mass, magnetized and unmagnetized white dwarf stars. To achieve high resolution at initiation sites, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Peter Anninos , David Cruz-Lopez , Brighten Jiang , Emanuel Gordis

Simulations of a supersonic, premixed, reacting flow over a wedge were performed to investigate the effect of a boundary layer on the wedge surface on ignition and stability of oblique detonation waves (ODWs). Two computational domains were…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-28 Christian L. Bachman , Gabriel B. Goodwin

We generalize the Dogterom-Leibler model for microtubule dynamics [DL] to the case where the rates of elongation as well as the lifetimes of the elongating and shortening phases are a function of GTP-tubulin concentration. We study also the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-30 Shantia Yarahmadian , Blake Barker , Kevin Zumbrun , Sidney L. Shaw

I find conditions under which the "Weak Energy Principle" of Katz, Inagaki and Yahalom (1993) gives necessary and sufficient conditions. My conclusion is that, necessary and sufficient conditions of stability are obtained when we have only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Asher Yahalom

In this paper we study the stability of two different problems. The first one is a one-dimensional degenerate wave equation with degenerate damping, incorporating a drift term and a leading operator in non-divergence form. In the second…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Mohammad Akil , Genni Fragnelli , Ibtissam Issa

The present work examines the role of instability and diffusive phenomena in controlling the limits of detonations subject to lateral strain rates. Experiments were conducted in hydrocarbon-oxygen mixtures with varying levels of cellular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-22 Qiang Xiao , Matei I. Radulescu

We study the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in a collisional plasma composed of strongly coupled ions and relativistically degenerate electrons. The equilibrium of ions is maintained by an effective temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla

We establish sharp pointwise Green's function bounds and consequent linearized and nonlinear stability for smooth traveling front solutions, or relaxation shocks, of general hyperbolic relaxation systems of dissipative type, under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Corrado Mascia , Kevin Zumbrun

We propose a new reduced fluid model for the study of the drift wave -- zonal flow dynamics in magnetically confined plasmas. Our model can be viewed as an extension of the classic Hasegawa-Wakatani (HW) model, and is based on an improved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Andrew J. Majda , Di Qi , Antoine J. Cerfon

In this paper, extending previous results of \cite{J1}, we obtain pointwise nonlinear stability of periodic traveling reaction-diffusion waves, assuming spectral linearized stability, under nonlocalized perturbations. More precisely, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-06 Soyeun Jung , Kevin Zumbrun

Multidimensional numerical simulations of a homogeneous, chemically reactive gas were used to study ignition, flame stability, and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in a supersonic combustor. The configuration studied was a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-15 Gabriel B. Goodwin , Elaine S. Oran

One-dimensional numerical simulations using the Euler equations and irreversible one-step Arrhenius kinetics are conducted to study the instability mechanism of a one-dimensional gaseous detonation. By increasing the activation energy, this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yunfeng Liu

Combining work of Serre and Zumbrun, Benzoni-Gavage, Serre, and Zumbrun, and Texier and Zumbrun, we propose as a mechanism for the onset of cellular instability of viscous shock and detonation waves in a finite-cross-section duct the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Kevin Zumbrun

Direct observation of a Rotating Detonation Engine combustion chamber has enabled the extraction of the kinematics of its detonation waves. These records exhibit a rich set of instabilities and bifurcations arising from the interaction of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-15 James Koch , Mitsuru Kurosaka , Carl Knowlen , J. Nathan Kutz

In the previous paper \cite{J1}, we established pointwise bounds for the Green function of the linearized equation associated with spatially periodic traveling waves $\bar u$ of a system of reaction diffusion equations, and also obtained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Soyeun Jung

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

Continuing a line of investigation initiated by Texier and Zumbrun on dynamics of viscous shock and detonation waves, we show that a linearly unstable Lax-type viscous shock solution of a semilinear strictly parabolic system of conservation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-10 Kevin Zumbrun

This study uses a simplified detonation model to investigate the behaviour of detonations with galloping-like pulsations. The reactive Burgers equation is used for the hydrodynamic equation, coupled to a pulsed source whereby all the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-23 S. SM. Lau-Chapdelaine , M. I. Radulescu

In this paper we consider a multi-dimensional wave equation with dynamic boundary conditions related to the Kelvin-Voigt damping and a delay term acting on the boundary. If the weight of the delay term in the feedback is less than the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Stéphane Gerbi , Said-Houari Belkacem