Lane-Emden equations of second kind modelling thermal explosion in infinite cylinder and sphere＊.pdfVIP

App1．Math．Mech．一Eng1．Ed．，34(12)，1439—1452(2013) Applied Mathematics DOI10．1007／s10483—013—1758—6 andM echanics @ShanghaiUniversityandSpringer—Verlag Berlin Heidelberg2013 (EnglishEdition) Lane—Emden equationsofsecond kind modellingthermalexplosion in infinitecylinderand sphere K．REGER， R．A．VAN GORDER (DepartmentofMathematics，UniversityofCentralFlorida，Orlando，Florida32816，U．S，A．) A bstract W estudyamodifiedversionoftheLane—Emdenequationofthesecondkind modellingathermalexplosion in an infinitecylinderandasphere．W efirstshow that thesolution totherelevantboundary valueproblem isbounded and thatthesolutions are monotonedecreasing．Theupperbound，thevalueofthesolution atzero，can be approximatedanalytically intermsofthephysicalparameters．W eobtain solutionsto theboundaryvalueproblem，usingboththeTaylorseries(whichworkwellforweak nonlinearity)andthe6-expansionmethod(validofrstrongnonlinearity)．Fromhere)we areabletodeducethequalitativebehaviorofthesolutionprofileswith achangeinany oneofthephysicalparameters． Key words Lane-Emdenequation，bifurcation，thermalexplosion，analyticalmethod ChineseLibrary Classification O316，O317+．3 2010MathematicsSubjectClassification 34A25，34D10，85A05 1 Introduction In thepresentPaper，weconsideramodifiedversion oftheLane—Emden equation ofthe second kind．which isused in modelling a thermalexplosion in eitheran infinite cylinder (k=1)orasphere(=2)．Thegoverningequationhasbeenderivedanddiscussedbynank- Kam enetzkii[11Recently,suchanequationwasthefoCUSofastudybyHarleyandMomoniat[2J ． ． whereapproximatefirstinte