Stable and unstable singularities in the unforced Hele-Shaw cell

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1356-1370

  Almgren, Robert ^a   Bertozzi, Andrea ^b,c   Brenner, Michael P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELE-SHAW CELL; LUBRICATION; MODELS;

EID: 0029674544     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868915     Document Type: Article

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