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Combustion of volatile condensed systems behind the stability limit of the stationary regime

A. A. Belyaev, Z. I. Kaganova, B. V. Novozhilov

Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991

Abstract: The nonstationary combustion of gasifying condensed systems behind the stability limit of stationary combustion is studied numerically using the Belyaev–Zel'dovich model with first-order chemical reactions in the condensed and gas phases. The stability limit of constant-pressure stationary combustion is found. A pressure change results in a sequence of period-doubling bifurcations for burning-rate oscillations. A chaotic combustion regime occurs after the fourth bifurcation.

Keywords: propellant, nonstationary combustion, numerical simulation, bifurcation, period doubling, chaos.

UDC: 536.46

Received: 15.05.2003

 English version: Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves, 2004, 40:4, 425–431

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