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This paper studies the stability of the front of chemoconvective finger patterns spontaneously formed in a two-layer system of reacting liquids placed in a narrow gap between two solid plates. The mathematical model of this process includes a system of equations that take into account chemical reaction, diffusion, and convection, written in the Hele-Shaw approximation. Numerical analysis of the model shows that with increasing intensity of heat release, the envelope of the salt fingers is smoothed and chemoconvection occurs in a narrow region adjacent to the interface.
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Original Russian Text © D.A. Bratsun.
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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 14–24, March–April, 2014.
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Bratsun, D.A. Thermogravitational mechanism of alignment of the front of chemoconvection patterns with an exothermic chemical reaction. J Appl Mech Tech Phy 55, 199–208 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894414020023
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