Front speed in reactive compressible stirred media
We investigated a nonlinear advection-diffusion-reaction equation for a passive scalar field. The purpose is to understand how the compressibility can affect the front dynamics and the bulk burning rate. We study two classes of flows: periodic shear flow and cellular flow, analyzing the system by varying the extent of compressibility and the reaction rate. We find that the bulk burning rate vf in a shear flow increases with compressibility intensity ?, following the relation ?vf??2. Furthermore, the faster the reaction is, the more important the difference is with respect to the laminar case.






