QUASI-PERIODIC WAVES AND THE TRANSFER OF STABILITY IN CONDENSED-PHASESURFACE COMBUSTION

This article is concerned with the structure and stability properties of a combustion front propagating in the axial direction along the out er surface of a cylindrical solid fuel element. A nonlinear analysis i s given that explains the occurrence of spinning and standing wave pat terns as bifurcations from a uniformly propagating plane circular fron t. Particular attention is given to a stability transfer mechanism bet ween standing and spinning waves by means of quasi-periodic waves.