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Title: Surface tension and dynamics of fingering patterns
Author: Magdaleno Escar, Francesc Xavier
Casademunt i Viader, Jaume
Keywords: Dinàmica de fluids
Fluid dynamics
Issue Date: 1998
Publisher: The American Physical Society
Abstract: We study the minimal class of exact solutions of the Saffman-Taylor problem with zero surface tension, which contains the physical fixed points of the regularized (nonzero surface tension) problem. New fixed points are found and the basin of attraction of the Saffman-Taylor finger is determined within that class. Specific features of the physics of finger competition are identified and quantitatively defined, which are absent in the zero surface tension case. This has dramatic consequences for the long-time asymptotics, revealing a fundamental role of surface tension in the dynamics of the problem. A multifinger extension of microscopic solvability theory is proposed to elucidate the interplay between finger widths, screening and surface tension.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.57.R3707
It is part of: Physical Review E, 1998, vol. 57, p. R3707-R3710
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/18772
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.57.R3707
ISSN: 1063-651X
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)

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