From viscous fingering to viscoelastic fracturing in colloidal fluids

Lemaire, Emmanuel; Levitz, Pierre; Daccord, G.; Van Damme, H.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.67.2009

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From viscous fingering to viscoelastic fracturing in colloidal fluids

Published in Physical Review Letters • Oct 1, 1991

Authors:

Emmanuel Lemaire

Pierre Levitz

G. Daccord

Abstract

Fluid-displacement experiments in Hele-Shaw cells filled with a viscoelastic fluid show a novel transition between a viscous fingering (VF) regime producing fractal patterns of ``fingers'' and a viscoelastic facturing (VEF) regime producing fractal patterns of ``cracks.'' VEF patterns are characteri...

Subject

Viscoelasticity

Viscous fingering

Fractal

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