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Cross-diffusion waves resulting from multiscale, multi-physics instabilities: theory
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Manman Hu
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Christoph Schrank
Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4001, Australia
Xiao Chen
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Santiago Peña Clavijo
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Ulrich Kelka
CSIRO Deep Earth Imaging Future Science Platform, Kensington, WA, 6151, Australia
Ali Karrech
School of Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
Oliver Gaede
Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4001, Australia
Tomasz Blach
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Hamid Roshan
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Antoine B. Jacquey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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In this paper we expand on a recent discovery of slow cross-diffusion hydromechanical waves cast into a new concise reaction–diffusion equation for THMC coupling. If waves are excited through the THMC reaction terms unbounded reactions can be captured by inclusion of statistical information from the lower scale through nonlocal reaction–diffusion equations. These cross-diffusion coefficients regularize extreme earthquake-like events (rogue waves) through a new form of quasi-soliton wave.
In this paper we expand on a recent discovery of slow cross-diffusion hydromechanical waves cast...