Bulletin of the American Physical Society
73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 65, Number 13
Sunday–Tuesday, November 22–24, 2020; Virtual, CT (Chicago time)
Session C01: Invited Talk: Viscous Fingering Instabilities: From Suppression to DisorderInvited Live
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Chair: Howard Stone, Princeton University |
Sunday, November 22, 2020 1:50PM - 2:25PM Live |
C01.00001: Viscous fingering instabilities: from suppression to disorder Invited Speaker: Anne Juel What links a baby’s first breath to adhesive debonding, enhanced oil recovery, filtration or multiphase microfluidics? These processes involve two-phase displacement flows in rigid or elastic confined vessels, which are prone to interfacial instabilities. The canonical viscous fingering instability, which occurs when air displaces a viscous fluid in the narrow gap between two parallel plates, provides a versatile test-bed for such phenomena. In this talk, I will use both experiments and numerical simulations of depth-averaged models to explore several aspects of viscous fingering. I will first show how the onset of fingering can be suppressed when replacing the upper plate of the vessel with an elastic sheet. Interfacial flows in narrow gaps can also exhibit considerable disorder, but they are rarely investigated from a dynamical systems perspective. I will show how compliance can promote rich multiplicity of front propagation modes in a channel, including disordered and therefore transient dynamics. I will then turn to exploring how organised transient dynamics of bubbles propagating in a rigid channel are orchestrated by weakly-unstable steady propagation modes, which can appear and disappear as the number of bubbles changes through bubble break-up and coalescence. [Preview Abstract] |
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