Tricritical point as a crossover between type-Is and type-IIs bifurcations

Prabakaran Rajamanickam, Joel Daou

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Abstract

A tricritical point as a crossover between (stationary finite-wavelength) type-Is and (stationary longwave) type-IIs bifurcations is identified in the study of diffusive-thermal (Turing) instability of flames propagating in a Hele-Shaw channel in a direction transverse to a shear flow. Three regimes exhibiting different scaling laws are identified in the neighbourhood of the tricritical point. For these three regimes, sixth-order partial differential equations are obtained governing the weakly nonlinear evolution of unstable solutions near the onset of instability. These sixth-order PDES may be regarded as the substitute for the classical fourth-order Kuramoto­­­­­­–­­Sivashinsky equation which is not applicable near the tricritical point.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2
JournalProgress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal
Volume4
Issue number1
Early online date1 Oct 2023
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 1 Oct 2023

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