Weak solution of the Hele-Shaw problem: shocks and viscous fingering

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2008-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/0812.0579v2

JETP Letters vol. 92, issue 2, page 95 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, JETP Letters

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In Hele-Shaw flows, boundaries between fluids develop unstable viscous fingers. At vanishing surface tension, the fingers further evolve to cusp-like singularities. We show that the problem admits a {\it weak solution} where shock fronts triggered by a singularity propagate together with a fluid. Shocks form a growing, branching tree of a mass deficit, and a line distribution of vorticity where pressure and velocity of the fluid have finite discontinuities. Imposing that the flow remain curl-free at macroscale determines the shock graph structure. We present a self-similar solution describing shocks emerging from a generic (2,3)-cusp singularity -- an elementary branching event.

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