Publication Date:
2022-05-26
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© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Derr, N. J., Fronk, D. C., Weber, C. A., Mahadevan, A., Rycroft, C. H., & Mahadevan, L. Flow-driven branching in a frangible porous medium. Physical Review Letters, 125(15), (2020): 158002, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.158002.
Description:
Channel formation and branching is widely seen in physical systems where movement of fluid through a porous structure causes the spatiotemporal evolution of the medium. We provide a simple theoretical framework that embodies this feedback mechanism in a multiphase model for flow through a frangible porous medium with a dynamic permeability. Numerical simulations of the model show the emergence of branched networks whose topology is determined by the geometry of external flow forcing. This allows us to delineate the conditions under which splitting and/or coalescing branched network formation is favored, with potential implications for both understanding and controlling branching in soft frangible media.
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N. D. was partially supported by the NSF-Simons Center for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Biology at Harvard, Grant No. 1764269, and the Harvard Quantitative Biology Initiative. C. H. R. and N. D. were partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1753203. C. H. R. was partially supported by the Applied Mathematics Program of the U.S. DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. L. M. was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. DMR-2011754 and No. DMR-1922321.
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Woods Hole Open Access Server
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Article
