Viscous Fingering Fractals in Porous Media
- 9 December 1985
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (24), 2688-2691
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.2688
Abstract
Gas displacing a high-viscosity fluid in a two-dimensional porous disk intrudes in the form of ramified fingers similar to the structures obtained in diffusion-limited aggregation. We find that the resulting finger structures are described by a fractal dimension consistent with for diffusion-limited aggregation clusters. This result confirms the analogy between diffusion-limited aggregation and two-fluid displacement in porous media introduced by Paterson.
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