Effects of moderate Damköhler number on miscible viscous fingering involving viscosity decrease due to a chemical reaction

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 625, Issue , 2009, Pages 97-124

  Nagatsu, Yuichiro ^a   Kondo, Yusuke ^a   Kato, Yoshihito ^a   Tada, Yutaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL IONS; METALS; VISCOSITY;

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; FINGERING PATTERNS; FLUID MOTIONS; HELE-SHAW CELLS; INJECTION HOLES; LINEAR GEOMETRY; SINGLE PARAMETER; VISCOUS FINGERING;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL REACTION; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINGERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; LINEARITY; RADIAL FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 67650922109     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008005429     Document Type: Article

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