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Periodic forcing in viscous fingering of a nematic liquid crystal

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dc.creator Folch Manzanares, Roger
dc.creator Toth Katona, T.
dc.creator Buka, Agnes
dc.creator Casademunt i Viader, Jaume
dc.creator Hernández Machado, Aurora
dc.date 2011-07-07T12:50:59Z
dc.date 2011-07-07T12:50:59Z
dc.date 2001
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:27:18Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:27:18Z
dc.identifier 1539-3755
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/18706
dc.identifier 185811
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/22237
dc.description Viscous fingering of an air-nematic interface in a radial Hele-Shaw cell is studied when periodically switching on and off an electric field, which reorients the nematic and thus changes its viscosity, as well as the surface tension and its anisotropy (mainly enforced by a single groove in the cell). Undulations at the sides of the fingers are observed that correlate with the switching frequency and with tip oscillations that give maximal velocity to smallest curvatures. These lateral undulations appear to be decoupled from spontaneous (noise induced) side branching. It is concluded that the lateral undulations are generated by successive relaxations between two limiting finger widths. The change between these two selected pattern scales is mainly due to the change in the anisotropy. This scenario is confirmed by numerical simulations in the channel geometry, using a phase-field model for anisotropic viscous fingering.
dc.format 9 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher The American Physical Society
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.64.056225
dc.relation Physical Review E, 2001, vol. 64, núm. 5, p. 056225-1-056225-9
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.64.056225
dc.rights (c) The American Physical Society, 2001
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)
dc.subject Dinàmica de fluids
dc.subject Sòlids
dc.subject Líquids
dc.subject Cristal·lografia
dc.subject Fluid dynamics
dc.subject Solids
dc.subject Liquids
dc.subject Crystallography
dc.title Periodic forcing in viscous fingering of a nematic liquid crystal
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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