Viscous fingering patterns in ferrofluids

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000033156.44251.15zbMATH Open0949.76032arXivcond-mat/9802194OpenAlexW3105595620MaRDI QIDQ1809433FDOQ1809433

Authors: Michael Widom, José A. Miranda 

Publication date: 25 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Viscous fingering occurs in the flow of two immiscible, viscous fluids between the plates of a Hele-Shaw cell. Due to pressure gradients or gravity, the initially planar interface separating the two fluids undergoes a Saffman-Taylor instability and develops finger-like structures. When one of the fluids is a ferrofluid and a perpendicular magnetic field is applied, the labyrinthine instability supplements the usual viscous fingering instability, resulting in visually striking, complex patterns. We consider this problem in a rectangular flow geometry using a perturbative mode-coupling analysis. We deduce two general results: viscosity contrast between the fluids drives interface asymmetry, with no contribution from magnetic forces; magnetic repulsion within the ferrofluid generates finger tip-splitting, which is absent in the rectangular geometry for ordinary fluids.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9802194

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zbMATH Keywords

pattern formationHele-Shaw cellSaffman-Taylor instabilityfinger tip-splittingmagnetic repulsionperturbative mode-coupling analysisrectangular flow geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25)

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