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20162024
most citedViscous fingering and dendritic growth under an elastic membrane

25 citations · 56 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 9 cited

U-shaped disks in Stokes flow: Chiral sedimentation of a non-chiral particle

Christian Vaquero-Stainer, Tymoteusz Miara, Anne Juel +2

We study the sedimentation of U-shaped circular disks in the Stokes limit of vanishing inertia. We simulate the flow past such disks using a finite-element-based solution of the 3D…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Peeling fingers in an elastic Hele-Shaw channel

J. V. Fontana, C. Cuttle, D. Pihler-Puzovic +2

Using experiments and a depth-averaged numerical model, we study instabilities of two-phase flows in a Hele-Shaw channel with an elastic upper boundary and a non-uniform cross-sect…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Axisymmetric gas-liquid displacement flow under a confined elastic slab

Gunnar G. Peng, Callum Cuttle, Christopher W. MacMinn +1

A circular Hele-Shaw cell bounded by a volumetrically confined elastic solid can act as a fluidic fuse: during radially outward fluid flow, the solid deforms in response to the vis…

physics.flu-dyn2022

The propagation of air fingers into an elastic branching network

Haolin Li, Anne Juel, Finn Box +1

We study experimentally the propagation of an air finger through the Y-bifurcation of an elastic, liquid-filled Hele-Shaw channel, as a benchtop model of airway reopening. With cha…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 12 cited

The engulfment of aqueous droplets on perfectly wetting oil layers

Callum Cuttle, Alice B. Thompson, Draga Pihler-Puzović +1

Place a droplet of mineral oil on water and the oil will spread to cover the water surface in a thin film -- a phenomenon familiar to many, owing to the rainbow-faced puddles left…

nlin.PS2019

Self-similar and disordered front propagation in a radial Hele-Shaw channel with time-varying cell depth

Christian Vaquero-Stainer, Matthias Heil, Anne Juel +1

The displacement of a viscous fluid by an air bubble in the narrow gap between two parallel plates can readily drive complex interfacial pattern formation known as viscous fingerin…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 10 cited

Dynamics of front propagation in a compliant channel

Callum Cuttle, Draga Pihler-Puzović, Anne Juel

Front-propagating systems provide some of the most fundamental physical examples of interfacial instability and pattern formation. However, their nonlinear dynamics are rarely addr…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 25 cited

Viscous fingering and dendritic growth under an elastic membrane

Lucie Ducloue, Andrew Hazel, Draga Pihler-Puzovic +1

We investigate the viscous fingering instability that arises when air is injected from the end of an oil-filled, compliant channel. We show that induced axial and transverse depth…