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Hele-Shaw flows with free boundaries in a corner or around a wedge Part II: Air at the vertex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2002

S. RICHARDSON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland

Abstract

Consider a Hele-Shaw cell with the fluid (liquid) confined to an angular region by a solid boundary in the form of two half-lines meeting at an angle απ; if 0 < α < 1 we have flow in a corner, while if 1 < α [les ] 2 we have flow around a wedge. We suppose contact between the fluid and each of the lines forming the solid boundary to be along a single segment that does not adjoin the vertex, so we have air at the vertex, and contemplate such a situation that has been produced by injection at a number of points into an initially empty cell. We show that, if we assume the pressure to be constant along the free boundaries, the region occupied by the fluid is the image of a rectangle under a conformal map that can be expressed in terms of elliptic functions if α = 1 or α = 2, and in terms of theta functions if 0 < α < 1 or 1 < α < 2. The form of the function giving the map can be written down, and the parameters appearing in it then determined as the solution to a set of transcendental equations. The procedure is illustrated by a number of examples.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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