Heat Explosion In Porous Media Using Radial Basis Functions

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the numerical investigation of the interaction between natural convection and heat explosion in a fluid-saturated porous media in a rectangular domain. The model consists of Darcy equations for an incompressible fluid in a porous medium coupled with the nonlinear heat equation. Numerical simulations are performed using the radial basis functions method (RBFs). We study the bifurcation of the periodic oscillation of the response born by Hopf bifurcation. First, a symmetry-breaking bifurcations observed; then is followed by successive period-doubling bifurcations leading to chaos.

Keywords

• convective heat explosion
• porous media
• period-doubling
• radials basis functions method