Viscous shocks in Hele-Shaw flow and Stokes phenomena of the Painlevé I transcendent

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2010.09.017zbMATH Open1218.76021arXiv1005.0369OpenAlexW2043123348MaRDI QIDQ2276151FDOQ2276151

P. B. Wiegmann, Razvan Teodorescu, Seung-Yeop Lee

Publication date: 1 August 2011

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In Hele-Shaw flows at vanishing surface tension, the boundary of a viscous fluid develops cusp-like singularities. In recent papers [1, 2] we have showed that singularities trigger viscous shocks propagating through the viscous fluid. Here we show that the weak solution of the Hele-Shaw problem describing viscous shocks is equivalent to a semiclassical approximation of a special real solution of the Painleve I equation. We argue that the Painleve I equation provides an integrable deformation of the Hele-Shaw problem which describes flow passing through singularities. In this interpretation shocks appear as Stokes level-lines of the Painleve linear problem.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0369




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