Viscous Fingering: An Optimal Bound on the Growth Rate of the Mixing Zone

DOI10.1137/S003613999529438XzbMath0901.76082MaRDI QIDQ4377348

Felix Otto

Publication date: 9 February 1998

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

free boundary problempattern formationa priori estimateevolution of microstructureHele-Shaw cellmobility ratiomagnetic fluidsnetwork of fingers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Fractals (28A80)

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