Flame Front Propagation and Finger Competition and Formation of a Single Saffman-Taylor Finger without Surface Tension - PhD Thesis

Abstract

Problems of interface growth have received much attention recently Such are, for example, the duffusion limited aggregation (DLA), random sequential adsorption (RSA), Laplacian growth or flame front propagation. We will mainly pay attention in this Thesis to the numerical and analytical investigation of the last two problems. In addition to the fact that flame front propagation is an interesting physical problem we feel that we can also explain experimental results on the basis of theoretical investigations. There exists possibility to use methods found for the flame front propagation, in different fields where similar problems appear such as the important model of Laplacian growth .