The effect of surface tension on steadily translating bubbles in an unbounded Hele-Shaw cell

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2017.0050MaRDI QIDQ4647218zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher C. Green, Christopher J. Lustri, Scott W. McCue

Publication date 4 January 2019

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06400

zbMATH Keywords

conformal mapsurface tensionselection problembubblesHele-Shaw cellcomplex potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

Abstract: New numerical solutions to the so-called selection problem for one and two steadily translating bubbles in an unbounded Hele-Shaw cell are presented. Our approach relies on conformal mapping which, for the two-bubble problem, involves the Schottky-Klein prime function associated with an annulus. We show that a countably infinite number of solutions exist for each fixed value of dimensionless surface tension, with the bubble shapes becoming more exotic as the solution branch number increases. Our numerical results suggest that a single solution is selected in the limit that surface tension vanishes, with the scaling between the bubble velocity and surface tension being different to the well-studied problems for a bubble or a finger propagating in a channel geometry.

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