Kinetic Roughening in Slow Combustion of Paper

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School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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1997

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en

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1515-1518

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 79, Issue 8

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We present results from an experimental study on the kinetic roughening of slow combustion fronts in paper sheets. The sheets were positioned inside a combustion chamber and ignited from the top to minimize convection effects. The emerging fronts were videotaped and digitized to obtain their time-dependent heights. The data were analyzed by calculating two-point correlation functions in the saturated regime. Both the growth and roughening exponents were determined and found consistent with the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, in agreement with recent theoretical work.

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kinetic roughening, interface dynamics, slow combustion, paper

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Maunuksela, J. & Myllys, M. & Kähkönen, O.-P. & Timonen, J. & Provatas, N. & Alava, M. J. & Ala-Nissilä, Tapio. 1997. Kinetic Roughening in Slow Combustion of Paper. Physical Review Letters. Volume 79, Issue 8. P. 1515-1518. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.79.1515.