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A strong contradiction in the multi-layer Hele-Shaw model

Fluid Dynamics 2019-03-06 v1

Abstract

The Saffman-Taylor instability occurs when a less viscous fluid is displacing a more viscous one in a rectangular Hele-Shaw cell. A surface tension on the interface between the two fluids is improving the stability. The multi-layer Hele - Shaw model, consisting of NN intermediate fluids with constant viscosities, was studied in some previous papers and very low growth constants were obtained for large NN. We prove that this model leads us to a significant instability, even if NN is very large. The maximum value of growth constants can not decrease under a certain value, not depending on the surface tensions on the interfaces. This contradiction with the Saffman-Taylor result makes us have some doubts concerning the correctness of multi-layer model.

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@article{arxiv.1903.01455,
  title  = {A strong contradiction in the multi-layer Hele-Shaw model},
  author = {Gelu Paşa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01455},
  year   = {2019}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.06591

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