Global instability of viscous fingering in a Hele–Shaw cell: formation of oscillatory fingers

DOI10.1017/S0956792500000437zbMath0727.76047OpenAlexW2030252948MaRDI QIDQ3351023

Jian-Jun Xu

Publication date: 1991

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956792500000437

zbMATH Keywords

surface tensionHele-Shaw cellviscous fingeringglobal instability mechanismglobal trapped wave instabilitynarrow, oscillatory fingersunique global, neutrally stable state of the system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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