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Published on: October 5, 2018
Kinetic undercooling in Hele-Shaw flows
Pedro H A Anjos1, Eduardo O Dias1, José A Miranda1
1Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil.
Abstract:
A central topic in Hele-Shaw flow research is the inclusion of physical effects on the interface between fluids. In this context, the addition of surface tension restrains the emergence of high interfacial curvatures, while consideration of kinetic undercooling effects inhibits the occurrence of high interfacial velocities. By connecting kinetic undercooling to the action of the dynamic contact angle, we show in a quantitative manner that the kinetic undercooling contribution varies as a linear function of the normal velocity at the interface. A perturbative weakly nonlinear analysis is employed to extract valuable information about the influence of kinetic undercooling on the shape of the emerging fingered structures. Under radial Hele-Shaw flow, it is found that kinetic undercooling delays, but does not suppress, the development of finger tip-broadening and finger tip-splitting phenomena. In addition, our results indicate that kinetic undercooling plays a key role in determining the appearance of tip splitting in rectangular Hele-Shaw geometry.
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