Flow around a wedge of arbitrary angle in a Hele-Shaw cell

L. J. CUMMINGS

doi:10.1017/S0956792599003782

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In this note we modify and extend the work of Howison & King [12] to describe the situation of flow around a wedge of arbitrary angle in a Hele-Shaw cell. An ingenious complex-variable method due to Polubarinova-Kochina is used to construct an explicit solution to the zero-surface tension problem.

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