Thesis
Viscous fingering and liquid crystals in confinement
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This thesis focuses on two problems lying within the field of soft condensed matter: the viscous fingering or Saffman-Taylor instability and nematic liquid crystals in confinement.
Whenever a low viscosity fluid displaces a high viscosity fluid in a porous medium, for example water pushing oil out of oil reservoirs, the interface between the two fluids is rendered unstable. Viscous fingers develop, grow and compete until a single finger spans all the way from inlet to outlet. Here, ...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Ard, L
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Role:
Supervisor
+ Yeomans, J
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Role:
Supervisor
+ Aarts, D
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Role:
Supervisor
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:7236
- Deposit date:
- 2013-09-02
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Zacharoudiou, I
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available in ORA.
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