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Hele–Shaw flow with a point sink: generic solution breakdown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2004

L. J. CUMMINGS
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK email: linda.cummings@nottingham.ac.uk
J. R. KING
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK email: linda.cummings@nottingham.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Recent numerical evidence [8, 28, 33] suggests that in the Hele–Shaw suction problem with vanishingly small surface tension $\gamma$, the free boundary generically approaches the sink in a wedge-like configuration, blow-up occurring when the wedge apex reaches the sink. Sometimes two or more such wedges approach the sink simultaneously [33]. We construct a family of solutions to the zero-surface tension (ZST) problem in which fluid is injected at the (coincident) apices of an arbitrary number $N$ of identical infinite wedges, of arbitrary angle. The time reversed suction problem then models what is observed numerically with non-zero surface tension. We conjecture that (for a given value of $N$) a particular member of this family of ZST solutions, with special complex plane singularity structure, is selected in the limit $\gamma\,{\to}\,0$.

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© 2004 Cambridge University Press