Discussion of Future Work A closer look at the relevance of spatial scales and diffusion is underway. Joint work with Alan Kerstein has produced a phase diagram which classifies burning regimes and classical predictions of flame speeds according to spatial scales and the Schmidt number. One dimensional turbulence models have been used as numerical validation of the results. A future project is to examine flame-fluid coupling. There are local effects are a result of vorticity production due to density differences across a flame front.
Global coupling arises in the presence of gravity through buoyancy effects.