# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

October  2011, 16(3): 739-766. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.16.739

## Existence of radial stationary solutions for a system in combustion theory

 1 INRA, Equipe BIOSP, Centre de Recherche d'Avignon, Domaine Saint Paul, Site Agroparc, 84914 Avignon cedex 9, France 2 Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática and CMM (UMI 2807 CNRS), Universidad de Chile, Blanco Encalada 2120 - 5 Piso, Santiago, Chile

Received  June 2010 Revised  February 2011 Published  June 2011

In this paper, we construct radially symmetric solutions of a nonlinear non-cooperative elliptic system derived from a model for flame balls with radiation losses. This model is based on a one step kinetic reaction and our system is obtained by approximating the standard Arrehnius law by an ignition nonlinearity, and by simplifying the term that models radiation. We prove the existence of 2 solutions using degree theory.
Citation: Jérôme Coville, Juan Dávila. Existence of radial stationary solutions for a system in combustion theory. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2011, 16 (3) : 739-766. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.16.739
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Wolanski, Mathematical justification of a nonlinear integrodifferential equation for the propagation of spherical flames,, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., 183 (2004), 173.  doi: 10.1007/s10231-003-0085-1.  Google Scholar [26] C. J. Lee and J. Buckmaster, The structure and stability of flame balls: a near-equidiffusional flame analysis,, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 51 (1991), 1315.  doi: 10.1137/0151066.  Google Scholar [27] B. Lewis and G. von Elbe, "Combustion, Flames and Explosion of Gases,", 3rd ed., (1987).   Google Scholar [28] M. Marion, Qualitative properties of a nonlinear system for laminar flames without ignition temperature,, Nonlinear Anal., 9 (1985), 1269.  doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(85)90035-5.  Google Scholar [29] S. Minaev, L. Kagan, G. Joulin and G. I. Sivashinsky, On self-drifting flame balls,, Combust. Theory Model., 5 (2001), 609.  doi: 10.1088/1364-7830/5/4/306.  Google Scholar [30] P. 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