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Hele Shaw flows with a free boundary produced by the injection of fluid into a narrow channel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

S. Richardson
S. Richardson
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
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Abstract

A blob of Newtonian fluid is sandwiched in the narrow gap between two plane parallel surfaces so that, a t some initial instant, its plan-view occupies a simply connected domain D0. Further fluid, with the same material properties, is injected into the gap at some fixed point within D0, so that the blob begins to grow in size. The domain D occupied by the fluid at some subsequent time is to be determined.

It is shown that the growth is controlled by the existence of an infinite number of invariants of the motion, which are of a purely geometric character. For sufficiently simple initial domains D0 these allow the problem to be reduced to the solution of a finite system of algebraic equations. For more complex initial domains an approximation scheme leads to a similar system of equations to be solved.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , 28 December 1972 , pp. 609 - 618
Copyright
© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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