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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.016312
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It is well known that the constant injection rate flow in radial Hele-Shaw cells leads to the formation of highly branched patterns, where finger tip-splitting events are plentiful. Different kinds of patterns arise in the lifting Hele-Shaw flow problem, where the cell's gap width grows linearly with time. In this case, the morphology of the emerging structures is characterized by the strong competition among inward moving fingers. By employing a mode-coupling theory we find that both finger tip-splitting and finger competition can be restrained by properly adjusting the injection rate and the time-dependent gap width, respectively. Our theoretical model approaches the problem analytically and is capable of capturing these important controlling mechanisms already at weakly nonlinear stages of the dynamics.
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