Speaker: 

Prof. Peter Constantin

Institution: 

U. Chicago

Time: 

Monday, March 1, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

We consider a system formed by a reaction-diffusion-advection equation coupled to the Navier-Stokes equations in a Boussinesq fashion. We discuss the existence of traveling fronts in cylindrical domains, their shape, stability and instability. Joint work with Berestycki, Kiselev and Ryzhik.