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Propagation of flame fronts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

N. F. Smyth
N. F. Smyth
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Wollongong, P.O. Box 1144, Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500, Australia.
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Abstract

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The propagation of a flame front in a combusting gas is considered in the limit in which the width of the reaction-zone is small compared with some overall flow dimension. In this approximation, the front propagates along its normals at a speed dependent on the local curvature of the front and is governed by a nonlinear equivalent of the geometric optics equations. Some exact solutions of this equation are found and a numerical scheme is developed to solve the equation for more complicated geometries.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 1990 , pp. 385 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1990

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