Dynamical Systems approach to Saffman-Taylor fingering. A Dynamical Solvability Scenario

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2001-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0107009v2

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

3 figures added, major rewriting of some sections, submitted to Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.056213

A dynamical systems approach to competition of Saffman-Taylor fingers in a channel is developed. This is based on the global study of the phase space structure of the low-dimensional ODE's defined by the classes of exact solutions of the problem without surface tension. Some simple examples are studied in detail, and general proofs concerning properties of fixed points and existence of finite-time singularities for broad classes of solutions are given. The existence of a continuum of multifinger fixed points and its dynamical implications are discussed. The main conclusion is that exact zero-surface tension solutions taken in a global sense as families of trajectories in phase space spanning a sufficiently large set of initial conditions, are unphysical because the multifinger fixed points are nonhyperbolic, and an unfolding of them does not exist within the same class of solutions. Hyperbolicity (saddle-point structure) of the multifinger fixed points is argued to be essential to the physically correct qualitative description of finger competition. The restoring of hyperbolicity by surface tension is discussed as the key point for a generic Dynamical Solvability Scenario which is proposed for a general context of interfacial pattern selection.

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