Viscous fingering: An optimal bound on the growth rate of the mixing zone

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 982-990

  Otto, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution of microstructure; Magnetic fluids; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

FINITE MOBILITY RATIO; PATTERN FORMATION; SAFFMAN-TAYLOR MODEL;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0031211418     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003613999529438X     Document Type: Article

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