Title
Nonlinear simulations of elastic fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell
Abstract
This work is motivated by the recent experiments of two reacting fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell (Podgorski etźal., 2007) and associated linear stability analysis of a curvature weakening model (He etźal., 2012). Unlike the classical Hele-Shaw problem posed for moving interfaces with surface tension, the curvature weakening model is concerned with a newly-produced gel-like phase that stiffens the interface, thus the interface is modeled as an elastic membrane with curvature dependent rigidity that reflects geometrically induced breaking of intermolecular bonds. Here we are interested in exploring the long-time interface dynamics in the nonlinear regime. We perform simulations using a spectrally accurate boundary integral method, together with a rescaling scheme to dramatically speed up the intrinsically slow evolution of the interface. We find curvature weakening inhibits tip-splitting and promotes side-branching morphology. At long times, numerical results reveal that there exist nonlinear, stable, self-similarly evolving morphologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.cam.2015.11.016
J. Computational Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
self similar
Viscous fingering,Rigidity (psychology),Hele-Shaw flow,Mathematical optimization,Surface tension,Nonlinear system,Curvature,Intermolecular force,Elasticity (economics),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
307
C
0377-0427
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
meng zhao100.34
Andrew Belmonte251.92
Shuwang Li3242.73
xiaofan li47912.44
John S. Lowengrub511514.76