From the standpoint of industrial safety, explosions present a major hazard, particularly for chemical plants and refineries, where accidental releases of large quantities of flammable material can often occur. When an explosion does take place at one of these facilities, the greatest hazards are often large-scale deflagrations, which can result in significant damage to individual buildings or even widespread damage over a large area, as in the case of unconfined vapor cloud explosions. At these scales, the formation of flame instabilities significantly increase the overall burning rate of the flame and the severity of the event.Without an adequate understanding of the mechanisms which govern the growth of these flame instabilities, and how...