Combustion in Two Dimensions Yields Fingering Instability
JAN 01, 1999
In a two‐dimensional geometry, burning paper develops a fingering instability. Is this phenomenon related to viscous fingering, dendritic growth and etectrodeposition?
DOI: 10.1063/1.882566
M any years ago, Elisha Moses stood high above a burning wheat field. “It burns essentially as a straight front. So long as the sky is open, there is no fingering. But if you could lower the sky, at some point the straight flame front would break into fingers,”
© 1999. American Institute of Physics
