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Stability of cosmological detonation fronts

Ariel Mégevand^* and Federico Agustín Membiela^†

IFIMAR (CONICET-UNMdP) and Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UNMdP, Deán Funes 3350, (7600) Mar del Plata, Argentina

^*megevand@mdp.edu.ar
^†membiela@mdp.edu.ar

Phys. Rev. D 89, 103503 – Published 1 May, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.103503

Abstract

The steady-state propagation of a phase-transition front is classified, according to hydrodynamics, as a deflagration or a detonation, depending on its velocity with respect to the fluid. These propagation modes are further divided into three types, namely, weak, Jouguet, and strong solutions, according to their disturbance of the fluid. However, some of these hydrodynamic modes will not be realized in a phase transition. One particular cause is the presence of instabilities. In this work we study the linear stability of weak detonations, which are generally believed to be stable. After discussing in detail the weak detonation solution, we consider small perturbations of the interface and the fluid configuration. When the balance between the driving and friction forces is taken into account, it turns out that there are actually two different kinds of weak detonations, which behave very differently as functions of the parameters. We show that the branch of stronger weak detonations are unstable, except very close to the Jouguet point, where our approach breaks down.

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