On Majda' Model For Dynamic Combustion

Majda's model of dynamic combustion, consists of the system, In this paper the Cauchy problem is considered. A weak entropy solution for this system is defined, existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on initial data are proved, as well as finite propagation speed, for initial data in . The existence is proved via the "vanishing viscosity method". Furthermore it is proved that the solution to the Riemann problem converges as to the Z–N–D traveling wave solution. In the appendices, a second order numerical scheme for the model is described, and some numerical results are presented.