Dynamics of finger formation in Laplacian growth without surface tension

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 973-1007

  Feigenbaum, Mitchell J ^a   Procaccia, Itamar ^b   Davidovich, Benny ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conformal maps; Hele shaw cells; Laplacian growth; Saffman taylor problem; Viscous fingering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035536407     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010313106449     Document Type: Article

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