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We present a new hydrodynamic model for incompressible binary fluids that is thermodynamically consistent and non-isothermal. This model follows the generalized Onsager principle and Boussinesq approximation and preserves the volume of each…
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We demonstrate through numerical simulations and a mean field calculation that immiscible two-phase flow in a porous medium behaves effectively as a Bingham viscoplastic fluid. This leads to a generalized Darcy equation where the volumetric…
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We perform linear stability analyses (LSA) and direct numerical simulations (DNS) to investigate the influence of the dynamic viscosity on viscous fingering (VF) instability in miscible slices. Selecting the characteristic scales…
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