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Motivated by the desire to understand complex transient behaviour in fluid flows, we study the dynamics of an air bubble driven by the steady motion of a suspending viscous fluid within a Hele-Shaw channel with a centred depth perturbation.…

We study a Hele-Shaw problem with a mushy region obtained as a Mesa type limit of one phase Stefan problems in exterior domains. We study the convergence, determine some of the qualitative properties and regularity of the unique limiting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. A. Blank , M. K. Korten , C. N. Moore

We investigate a Hele-Shaw type free boundary problem in one spatial dimension, where heterogeneities appear both on the free boundary and within the interior of the positivity set. Our contributions are twofold. First, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Olga Turanova , Yuming Paul Zhang

Shapes of planar lipid monolayer domains at the air-water interface are theoretically and numerically investigated by minimizing the formation energy of the domains which consist of the surface energy, line tension energy, and dipole…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-01 Hao Wu , Z. C. Tu

The rise of a single bubble confined between two vertical plates is investigated over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. In particular, we focus on the evolution of the bubble speed, aspect ratio and drag coefficient during the transition…

We present an anomalous experimental observation on the rising speed of air bubbles in a Hele-Shaw cell containing a suspension of spherical, neutrally-buoyant, non-Brownian particles. Strikingly, bubbles rise faster in suspensions as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-08 Christopher Madec , Brivaël Collin , J. John Soundar Jerome , Sylvain Joubaud

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

A classical topic in the mathematical theory of hydrodynamics is to study the evolution of the free surface separating air from an incompressible perfect fluid. The goal of this survey is to examine this problem for two important sets of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Thomas Alazard

Nonlinear deformations of a two-dimensional gas bubble are investigated in the framework of a Hamiltonian formulation involving surface variables alone. The Dirichlet--Neumann operator is introduced to accomplish this dimensional reduction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-27 Philippe Guyenne

Bubbles of inviscid fluid surrounded by a viscous fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell can merge and break-off. During the process of break-off, a thinning neck pinches off to a universal self-similar singularity. We describe this process and reveal…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Seung-Yeop Lee , Eldad Bettelheim , Paul Wiegmann

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

Hele-Shaw flows with time-dependent gaps create fingering patterns, and magnetic fluids in Hele-Shaw cells create intriguing patterns.We propose a simple numerical method for Hele-Shaw type problems by the method of fundamental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Koya Sakakibara , Yusaku Shimoji , Shigetoshi Yazaki

We study the long-time behavior of an exterior Hele-Shaw problem in random media with a free boundary velocity that depends on position in dimensions $n \geq 2$. A natural rescaling of solutions that is compatible with the evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Norbert Pozar

Simulating the detailed movement of a rising bubble can be challenging, especially when it comes to bubble path instabilities. Free rising ellipsoidal bubbles not only move in straight lines but can describe sinusoidal, zigzag or spiraling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-22 Andreas Weber , Hans-Jörg Bart , Axel Klar

We propose a novel strategy that permits the construction of completely general five-dimensional microstate geometries on a Gibbons-Hawking space. Our scheme is based on two steps. First, we rewrite the bubble equations as a system of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Jesus Avila , Pedro F. Ramirez , Alejandro Ruiperez

We present an investigation of the Residual Free Bubble finite element method for a class of multiscale nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. After proposing a nonlinear version for the method, we address fundamental questions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Manuel Barreda , Alexandre L. Madureira

We study the problem of breakup of an air bubble in a Hele-Shaw cell. In particular, we propose some sufficient conditions of breakup of the bubble, and ways to find the contraction points of its parts. We also study regulated contraction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-02 Vladimir Entov , Pavel Etingof

We prove a priori estimates for the system of partial differential equations modeling the interaction between an elastic body and an incompressible fluid in a 3D curved domain. The fluid is governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 B. Ingimarson , I. Kukavica , W. S. Ożański

Liquid simulations for computer animation often avoid simulating the air phase to reduce computational costs and ensure good conditioning of the linear systems required to enforce incompressibility. However, this free surface assumption…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Ryan Goldade , Christopher Batty

This work discusses the correct modeling of the fully nonlinear free surface boundary conditions to be prescribed in water waves flow simulations based on potential flow theory. The main goal of such a discussion is that of identifying a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Andrea Mola , Nicola Giuliani , Óscar Crego , Gianluigi Rozza