Principle of minimum energy dissipation rate in steady Hele-Shaw flows

A new local form of the principle, in which dissipation is estimated only in a small vicinity of a free interface in steady Hele-Shaw flows, is proposed. It is established that for the problem of bubble propulsion the principle proposed is mathematically equivalent to the variational principle formu...

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Published in:Fluid dynamics 2013-07, Vol.48 (4), p.512-522
Main Author: Alimov, M. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bubbles
Classical and Continuum Physics
Classical Mechanics
Computational fluid dynamics
Dissipation
Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Equivalence
Fingers
Fluid- and Aerodynamics
Mathematical analysis
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Propulsion
Variational principles
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Summary:A new local form of the principle, in which dissipation is estimated only in a small vicinity of a free interface in steady Hele-Shaw flows, is proposed. It is established that for the problem of bubble propulsion the principle proposed is mathematically equivalent to the variational principle formulated by Saffman and Taylor without physical validation. It is shown that the new local form of the minimum dissipation principle effectively solves the problem of selection of a unique selection in the problems of both bubble and finger propulsion.
ISSN:0015-4628
1573-8507
DOI:10.1134/S0015462813040108