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We rigorously prove the convergence of appropriately scaled solutions of the 2D Hele-Shaw moving boundary problem with surface tension in the limit of thin threads to the solution of the formally corresponding Thin Film equation. The proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-16 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Georg Prokert

The theory of quadrature domains for harmonic functions and the Hele-Shaw problem of the fluid dynamics are related subjects of the complex variables and mathematical physics. We present results generalizing the above subjects for elliptic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Igor Loutsenko

We consider the Hele-Shaw flow that arises from injection of two-dimensional fluid into a point of a curved surface. The resulting fluid domains have and are more or less determined implicitly by a mean value property for harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Haakan Hedenmalm , Anders Olofsson

Hele-Shaw flow at vanishing surface tension is ill-defined. In finite time, the flow develops cusp-like singularities. We show that the ill-defined problem admits a weak {\it dispersive} solution when singularities give rise to a graph of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-06-02 Seung-Yeop Lee , Razvan Teodorescu , Paul Wiegmann

A nonlocal interface equation is derived for two-phase fluid flow, with arbitrary wettability and viscosity contrast c=(mu_1-mu_2)/(mu_1+mu_2), in a model porous medium defined as a Hele-Shaw cell with random gap b_0+delta b. Fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Paune , J. Casademunt

Nowadays a vast literature is available on the Hele-Shaw or incompressible limit for nonlinear degenerate diffusion equations. This problem has attracted a lot of attention due to its applications to tissue growth and crowd motion modelling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Noemi David , Alpár R. Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio

In this work, we introduce a novel computational framework for solving the two-dimensional Hele-Shaw free boundary problem with surface tension. The moving boundary is represented by point clouds, eliminating the need for a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Zengyan Zhang , Wenrui Hao , John Harlim

We present a computational framework to address the flow of two immiscible viscous liquids which co-flow into a shallow rectangular container at one side, and flow out into a holding container at the opposite side. Assumptions based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-02 Shahriar Afkhami , Yuriko Renardy

Topology changes in multi-phase fluid flows are difficult to model within a traditional sharp interface theory. Diffuse interface models turn out to be an attractive alternative to model two-phase flows. Based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Dedè , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

We propose a method of construction of exact solutions of free boundary problems corresponding to Hele-Shaw flows in presence of an external field. Such a field may arise, in particular, due to electrokinetic phenomena. Both a general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Entov , Pavel Etingof

Over 125 years ago, Henry Selby Hele-Shaw realized that the depth-averaged flow in thin gap geometries can be closely approximated by two-dimensional (2D) potential flow, in a surprising marriage between the theories of viscous-dominated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-09 Lingyun Ding , Terry Wang , Marcus Roper

We investigate a generalized Hele-Shaw equation with a source and drift terms where the density is constrained by an upper-bound density constraint that varies in space and time. By using a generalized porous medium equation approximation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Raymond Chu

Consider the motion of a thin layer of electrically conducting fluid, between two closely spaced parallel plates, in a classical Hele-Shaw geometry. Furthermore, let the system be immersed in a uniform external magnetic field (normal to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-24 Kyle McKee

In this paper, we study the sharp interface limit for solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with disparate mobilities. This means that the mobility function degenerates in one of the two energetically favorable configurations, suppressing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Milan Kroemer , Tim Laux

In this paper, we demonstrate that potential theory provides a powerful framework for analyzing quasistationary fluid flows in bounded geometries, where the bulk dynamics are governed by elliptic equations with constant coefficients. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Christoph Walker

We consider the Hele-Shaw problem in a randomly perforated domain with zero Neumann boundary conditions. A homogenization limit is obtained as the characteristic scale of the domain goes to zero. Specifically, we prove that the solutions as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-08 Nestor Guillen , Inwon Kim

The kinetic roughening of a stable oil--air interface, moving in a Hele--Shaw cell which contains a quenched columnar disorder (tracks) has been studied. A capillary effect is responsible for the dynamic evolution of the resulting rough…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Soriano , J. J. Ramasco , M. A. Rodriguez , A. Hernandez-Machado , J. Ortin

We consider the problem of finding optimal shapes of fluid domains. The fluid obeys the Navier--Stokes equations. Inside a holdall container we use a phase field approach using diffuse interfaces to describe the domain of free flow. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

A brief review is presented of the scaling of complex fluids, polymers and polyelectrolytes in solution and in confined geometry, in thermodynamical, structural and rheology properties using equilibrium and nonequilibrium dissipative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-06 Armando Gama Goicochea

We consider the gradient flow of a one-homogeneous functional, whose dual involves the derivative of a constrained scalar function. We show in this case that the gradient flow is related to a weak, generalized formulation of the Hele-Shaw…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Ariela Briani , Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga , Giandomenico Orlandi
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