A mechanism for hot-spot generation in a reactive two-dimensional sheared viscous layer

A two-dimensional model for the non-uniform melting of a thin sheared viscous layer is developed. An asymptotic solution is presented for both a non-reactive and a reactive material. It is shown that the melt front is linearly stable to small perturbations in the non-reactive case, but becomes linea...

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Main Authors: Timms, R, Purvis, R, Curtis, JP
Format: Journal article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2018