Abstract:
We consider the dielectric breakdown model in the limit eta-->0(+). This is shown to lead to Sivashinsky's equation. We show that a particular configuration of poles is linearly stable, in analogy to the stability of the 1/2 finger for diffusion limited aggregation, and compute exactly the eigenvalues of the stability matrix.
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