Nonlinear Sciences – Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Scientific paper
2010-05-03
Physica D240:1080-1091,2011
Nonlinear Sciences
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
A more detailed derivation is included
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physd.2010.09.017
In Hele-Shaw flows at vanishing surface tension, the boundary of a viscous fluid develops cusp-like singularities. In recent papers [1, 2] we have showed that singularities trigger viscous shocks propagating through the viscous fluid. Here we show that the weak solution of the Hele-Shaw problem describing viscous shocks is equivalent to a semiclassical approximation of a special real solution of the Painleve I equation. We argue that the Painleve I equation provides an integrable deformation of the Hele-Shaw problem which describes flow passing through singularities. In this interpretation shocks appear as Stokes level-lines of the Painleve linear problem.
Lee Seung-Yeop
Teodorescu Razvan
Wiegmann Paul
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