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Periodic forcing in viscous fingering of a nematic liquid crystal | | R. Folch
; T. Tóth-Katona
; ’A. Buka
; J. Casademunt
; A. Hernández-Machado
; | | Date: |
8 Jun 2000 | | Journal: | Phys. Rev. E 64, 056225 (2001) | | Subject: | Soft Condensed Matter; Materials Science; Pattern Formation and Solitons | cond-mat.soft cond-mat.mtrl-sci nlin.PS | | Abstract: | We study viscous fingering of an air-nematic interface in a radial Hele-Shaw cell when periodically switching on and off an electric field, which reorients the nematic and thus changes its viscosity, as well as the surface tension and its anisotropy (mainly enforced by a single groove in the cell). We observe undulations at the sides of the fingers which correlate with the switching frequency and with tip oscillations which give maximal velocity to smallest curvatures. These lateral undulations appear to be decoupled from spontaneous (noise-induced) side branching. We conclude that the lateral undulations are generated by successive relaxations between two limiting finger widths. The change between these two selected pattern scales is mainly due to the change in the anisotropy. This scenario is confirmed by numerical simulations in the channel geometry, using a phase-field model for anisotropic viscous fingering. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0006131 | | Other source: | [GID 700545] pmid11736072 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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