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20192026
most citedNumerical investigation of controlling interfacial instabilities in non-standard Hele-Shaw configurations

62 citations · 151 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Numerical simulations and universal saturation profiles for viscous fingering patterns in Hele-Shaw flow

Irio M. Coutinho, Liam C. Morrow, Scott W. McCue

Hele-Shaw flows with an interface are known to give rise to complex pattern formation, whereby the Saffman-Taylor instability triggers a viscous fingering process accompanied by ti…

cond-mat.soft2025

Bulldozing an immersed granular material in a confined channel

Liam C. Morrow, Oliver W. Paulin, Matthew G. Hennessy +4

The motion of an immersed granular material in a channel is characterised by complex interactions among the grains, between the grains and the permeating liquid, and between the gr…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 17 cited

Gas compression systematically delays the onset of viscous fingering

Liam C. Morrow, Callum Cuttle, Christopher W. MacMinn

Using gas to drive liquid from a Hele-Shaw cell leads to classical viscous fingering. Strategies for suppressing fingering have received substantial attention. For steady injection…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Two-interface and thin filament approximation in Hele--Shaw channel flow

Michael C Dallaston, Michael J W Jackson, Liam C Morrow +1

When a viscous fluid partially fills a Hele--Shaw channel, and is pushed by a pressure difference, the fluid interface is unstable due to the Saffman--Taylor instability. We consid…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 17 cited

Compression-driven viscous fingering in a radial Hele-Shaw cell

Callum Cuttle, Liam C. Morrow, Christopher W. MacMinn

The displacement of a viscous liquid by a gas within a Hele-Shaw cell is a classical problem. The gas-liquid interface is hydrodynamically unstable, forming striking finger-like pa…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 12 cited

Viscous fingering patterns for Hele--Shaw flow in a doubly connected geometry driven by a pressure differential or rotation

Liam C. Morrow, Nicolas De Cock, Scott W. McCue

Traditional mathematical models of Hele--Shaw flow consider the injection (or withdrawal) of an air bubble into (or from) an infinite body of viscous fluid. The most commonly studi…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 16 cited

Fluid-fluid phase separation in a soft porous medium

Oliver W. Paulin, Liam C. Morrow, Matthew G. Hennessy +1

Various biological and chemical processes lead to the nucleation and growth of non-wetting fluid bubbles within the pore space of a granular medium, such as the formation of gas bu…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 15 cited

A review of one-phase Hele-Shaw flows and a level-set method for non-standard configurations

Liam C. Morrow, Timothy J. Moroney, Michael C. Dallaston +1

The classical model for studying one-phase Hele-Shaw flows is based on a highly nonlinear moving boundary problem with the fluid velocity related to pressure gradients via a Darcy-…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 3 cited

Interfacial dynamics and pinch-off singularities for axially symmetric Darcy flow

Liam C. Morrow, Michael C. Dallaston, Scott W. McCue

We study a model for the evolution of an axially symmetric bubble of inviscid fluid in a homogeneous porous medium otherwise saturated with a viscous fluid. The model is a moving b…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 9 cited

Moving boundary problems for quasi-steady conduction limited melting

Liam C. Morrow, John R. King, Timothy J. Moroney +1

The problem of melting a crystal dendrite is modelled as a quasi-steady Stefan problem. By employing the Baiocchi transform, asymptotic results are derived in the limit that the cr…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 62 cited

Numerical investigation of controlling interfacial instabilities in non-standard Hele-Shaw configurations

Liam C. Morrow, Timothy J. Moroney, Scott W. McCue

Viscous fingering experiments in Hele-Shaw cells lead to striking pattern formations which have been the subject of intense focus among the physics and applied mathematics communit…