Abstract
A tricritical point as a crossover between (stationary finite-wavelength) type-Is and (stationary longwave) type-IIs bifurcations is identified in the study of diffusive-thermal (Turing) instability of flames propagating in a Hele-Shaw channel in a direction transverse to a shear flow. Three regimes exhibiting different scaling laws are identified in the neighbourhood of the tricritical point. For these three regimes, sixth-order partial differential equations are obtained governing the weakly nonlinear evolution of unstable solutions near the onset of instability. These sixth-order PDES may be regarded as the substitute for the classical fourth-order Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation which is not applicable near the tricritical point.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2 |
| Journal | Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Oct 2023 |
Funding
This research was supported by the UK EPSRC through grant EP/V004840/1
Keywords
- tricritical point
- sixth-order PDEs
- Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation
- Weakly nonlinear analysis