Abstract
The stability of a planar flame front propagating between two parallel adiabatic plates inclined at an arbitrary angle is investigated in the frame of narrow-channel approximation. It is demonstrated that buoyancy forces can suppress the hydrodynamic (Darrieus–Landau) and cellular (diffusive-thermal) instabilities for sufficiently large value of the gravity parameter for the case of downward-propagating flames. The stability analysis reveals that in the case of oscillatory diffusive-thermal instability, the flame front cannot be stabilized in the similar way. Finally, the stability results are compared satisfactorily with unsteady numerical simulations.
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