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Numerical study of a problem in the combustion of a porous medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

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Abstract

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A spectral method is used to consider the porous medium combustion in an infinite slab. The infinite system of ordinary differential equations for the amplitude functions is truncated and comparisons are made for different numbers of modes included in the numerical computation. It is shown that the qualitative behaviour of the solution is captured by the first eigenmode. Dependence of the solution on initial data and a parameter is also considered.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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