Bubble growth as a detonation

Sep 20, 1993
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 3847-3853
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Report number:
  • HU-TFT-93-44

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Abstract:
Bubble growth as a detonation is studied in the context of cosmological phase transitions. It is proved that the so called Chapman-Jouguet hypothesis, which restricts the types of detonations that can occur in spherically symmetric chemical burning, does not hold in the case of phase transitions. Therefore a much larger class of detonation solutions exists in phase transitions than in chemical burning.
  • astrophysics
  • critical phenomena
  • hydrodynamics
  • relativistic
  • production: bubble
  • bubble: production
  • entropy
  • velocity
  • transition: quark hadron