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Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Physical Review Letters

Volume

89

Issue

10

Publisher

American Physical Society

Publication Date

8-2002

First Page

104501-1

Last Page

104501-4

Abstract

Poiseuille flow between parallel plates alters the shapes and velocities of chemical reaction fronts. In the narrow-gap limit, the cubic reaction-diffusion-advection equation predicts a front-velocity correction equal to the gap-averaged fluid velocity ϵ. In the singular wide-gap limit, the correction equals the midgap fluid velocity 3ϵ/2 when the flow is in the direction of propagation of the reaction front, and equals zero for adverse flow of any amplitude for which the front has a midgap cusp. Stationary fronts are possible only for adverse flow and finite gaps. Experiments are suggested.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.104501

Published by the American Physical Society in Physical Review Letters. Publisher PDF is available for download through the link above.

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