The instability of fronts in a porous medium

DOI10.1007/BF01206054zbMath0529.76054MaRDI QIDQ787790

Alexandre Joel Chorin

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

linear instabilitytransition to turbulencerandom choice methodcatastrophic finite amplitude instabilityinstability of front separating two fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Turbulence (76F99) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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