Pattern formation in non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1191-1212

  Fast, Petri ^a,d   Kondic, L ^b   Shelley, Michael J ^a   Palffy Muhoray, Peter ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY;

SAFFMAN-TAYLOR INSTABILITY;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

BUBBLE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; POLYMER;

EID: 0035340114     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1359417     Document Type: Article

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