Hydrodynamic bidimensional stability of detonation wave solutions for reactive mixtures

The structure of a planar detonation wave is analyzed for an Eulerian mixture of ideal gases undergoing the symmetric reversible explosive reaction . The chemical rate law is derived from the reactive Boltzmann equation, showing a detailed chemical kinetics in terms of a second-order reaction rate. The hydrodynamic bidimensional stability of the detonation wave is also investigated using a normal mode approach, when small time-space transverse disturbances affect the shock wave location. A suitable numerical technique is here proposed in order to solve the stability problem and numerical results are provided illustrating the detonation wave structure and its instability spectrum. (paper: classical statistical mechanics, equilibrium and non-equilibrium)