Bubble growth as a detonation

1993/09/08 by M. Laine · 6 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Bubble #Chemical physics #Chemistry #Classical mechanics #Context (archaeology) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Detonation #Explosive material #Geology #Mechanics #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Theoretical physics #Thermodynamics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.49.3847

published as Phys.Rev. D49 (1994) 3847-3853 · 15 LaTeX-pages with 5 ps-figures appended at the end, preprint HU-TFT-93-44

arxiv created 1993/09/08 · openalex publication_date 1994/04/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

In the case of spherically symmetric chemical burning, only very special hydrodynamical detonation solutions exist. These are the so-called Jouguet detonations, in which the burning front moves at sound velocity with respect to the burnt matter. Usually it is believed that the situation is similar in the case of bubble growth in cosmological phase transitions. In this paper it is shown that actually a much larger class of detonation solutions exists in cosmological phase transitions.

Citations

• Instability and subsequent evolution of electroweak bubbles

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• Gravitational waves from a very strong electroweak phase transition