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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 68, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.056305
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We study a fluid jet descending through stratified surroundings at low Reynolds number in Hele-Shaw flow. The jet buckles and overturns inside a conduit of entrained fluid which supports smooth or unstable traveling waves. A model of the recirculating flow within the conduit shows that buckling and waves arise from Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities and quantitatively accounts for the main experimental observations. Beyond the onset of the instability, a damped, forced Burgers' equation obtained from corrections to Darcy's law for small Reynolds number governs the interface dynamics and supports singularities corresponding to the observed jet overturning and unstable waves.
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