Lateral instability in normal viscous fingers

We study a low-amplitude, long-wavelength lateral instability of the Saffman-Taylor finger by means of a phase-field model. We observe such an instability in two situations in which small dynamic perturbations are overimposed to a constant pressure drop. We first study the case in which the perturba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Ledesma Aguilar, Rodrigo Andrés, Quevedo-Reyes, M., Corvera Poiré, Eugenia, Hernández Machado, Aurora
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/18701
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/18701
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dinàmica de fluids
Viscositat
Fluid dynamics
Viscosity
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Sumario:We study a low-amplitude, long-wavelength lateral instability of the Saffman-Taylor finger by means of a phase-field model. We observe such an instability in two situations in which small dynamic perturbations are overimposed to a constant pressure drop. We first study the case in which the perturbation consists of a single oscillatory mode and then a case in which the perturbation consists of temporal noise. In both cases the instability undergoes a process of selection.