Applied Analysis

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Date, time & place Thursday 16:00 - 17:30 002Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

2008/04/17

16:00-17:30   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
WEISS Georg (東京大学大学院数理科学研究科)
Hidden dynamics and pulsating waves in self-propagating high temperature synthesis
[ Abstract ]
We derive the precise limit of SHS in the high activation energy scaling suggested by B.J. Matkowksy-G.I. Sivashinsky in 1978 and by A. Bayliss-B.J. Matkowksy-A.P. Aldushin in 2002. In the time-increasing case the limit coincides with the Stefan problem for supercooled water with spatially inhomogeneous coefficients. In general it is a nonlinear forward-backward parabolic equation with discontinuous hysteresis term.

In the first part we give a complete characterization of the limit problem in the case of one space dimension. In the second part we construct in any finite dimension a rather large family of pulsating waves for the limit problem. In the third part, we prove that for constant coefficients the limit problem in any finite dimension does not admit non-trivial pulsating waves.
This is a joint work with Regis MONNEAU (CERMICS, France).