The propagation of low-viscosity fingers into fluid-filled branching networks

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 546, Issue , 2006, Pages 285-294

  Baroud, Charles N ^a   Tsikata, Sedina ^a   Heil, Matthias ^b  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; STIFFNESS; VISCOSITY;

AIR-FILLED BIFURCATION; AIRWAY WALL ELASTICITY; ELASTIC CHAMBERS; FLOW RATE; FLUID-FILLED MICROCHANNELS; LOW-VISCOSITY FLUID;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 31144470735     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005007287     Document Type: Article

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