Experimental study of a buoyancy-driven instability of a miscible horizontal displacement in a Hele-Shaw cell

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Haudin, F ^a   Riolfo, L A ^a   Knaepen, B ^a   Homsy, G M ^b   de Wit, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY;

BUOYANCY DRIVEN INSTABILITY; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; DENSITY STRATIFICATION; HELE-SHAW CELLS; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; MOVING INTERFACE; RADIAL DISPLACEMENTS;

STABILITY;

EID: 84905215776     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4870651     Document Type: Article

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