Shocks and finite-time singularities in Hele-Shaw flow

Details Shocks and finite-time singularities in Hele-Shaw flow Shocks and finite-time singularities in Hele-Shaw flow

2008-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/0811.0635v3

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 238 (2009), pp. 1113-1128

Nonlinear Sciences

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

24 pages, 11 figures; references added; figures changed

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physd.2009.03.016

Hele-Shaw flow at vanishing surface tension is ill-defined. In finite time, the flow develops cusp-like singularities. We show that the ill-defined problem admits a weak {\it dispersive} solution when singularities give rise to a graph of shock waves propagating in the viscous fluid. The graph of shocks grows and branches. Velocity and pressure jump across the shock. We formulate a few simple physical principles which single out the dispersive solution and interpret shocks as lines of decompressed fluid. We also formulate the dispersive weak solution in algebro-geometrical terms as an evolution of the Krichever-Boutroux complex curve. We study in detail the most generic (2,3) cusp singularity, which gives rise to an elementary branching event. This solution is self-similar and expressed in terms of elliptic functions.

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