Moving Front Instabilities: From Viscous Fingers to Solution Pipes
摘要
This set of lectures is devoted to the moving boundary processes in which a more mobile phase advances into a less mobile one. In such cases, the boundary between the phases becomes unstable and breaks into fingers. We are discussing two examples of such processes: viscous fingering, which is a classical example of unstable growth, and reactive-infiltration instability, which occurs in the process of dissolving fractures and porous rocks.