Variable-density miscible displacements in a vertical Hele-Shaw cell: Linear stability

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2007, Pages 357-372

  Goyal, N ^a   Pichler, H ^a   Meiburg, E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GRAVITATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PECLET NUMBER; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PIPE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

GRAVITY PARAMETER; GRAVITY-DRIVEN FLOWS; HELE-SHAW CELLS; QUASI-STEADY DISPLACEMENT FRONTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GRAVITATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PECLET NUMBER; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PIPE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STEADY FLOW; STOKES FORMULA; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 34547665310     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112007006428     Document Type: Article

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