Chemical fronts in Hele-Shaw cells: Linear stability analysis based on the three-dimensional Stokes equations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 597-602

  Demuth, Rainer ^a   Meiburg, Eckart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VORTEX FLOW;

LINEAR STABILITY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CHEMICAL; STABILITY; STOKES FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0037347457     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1536972     Document Type: Article

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