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CATEGORIES:Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
SUMMARY:Growth of thin fingers in Laplacian and Poisson fi
elds - Robb McDonald (University College London)
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UID:TALK133528AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/133528
DESCRIPTION:(i) The Laplacian growth of thin two-dimensional p
rotrusions in the form of either straight needles
or curved fingers satisfying Loewner'\;s equati
on is studied using the Schwarz-Christoffel (SC) m
ap. Particular use is made of Driscoll'\;s nume
rical procedure\, the SC Toolbox\, for computing t
he SC map from a half-plane to a slit half-plane\,
where the slits represent the needles or fingers.
Since the SC map applies only to polygonal region
s\, in the Loewner case\, the growth of curved fin
gers is approximated by an increasing number of sh
ort straight line segments. The growth rate of the
fingers is given by a fixed power of the harmonic
measure at the finger or needle tips and so inclu
des the possibility of &lsquo\;screening&rsquo\; a
s they interact with themselves and with boundarie
s. The method is illustrated by examples of needle
and finger growth in half-plane and channel geo
metries. Bifurcating fingers are also studied and
application to branching stream networks discussed
.
(ii) Solutions are found for the growth o
f infinitesimally thin\, two-dimensional fingers g
overned by Poisson'\;s equation in a long strip
. The analytical results determine the asymptotic
paths selected by the fingers which compare well w
ith the recent numerical results of Cohen and Roth
man (2017) for the case of two and three fingers.
The generalisation of the method to an arbitrary n
umber of fingers is presented and further results
for four finger evolution given. The relation to t
he analogous problem of finger growth in a Laplaci
an field is also discussed.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
CONTACT:INI IT
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