Surface-driven instability and enhanced relaxation in the dynamics of a nonequilibrium interface

Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy

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The penetration of a fluid into a porous medium or Hele-Shaw cell containing a more viscous liquid

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Stability of a Planar Interface During Solidification of a Dilute Binary Alloy

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Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena Vol 2

P Gray · Physics Bulletin · 1973 · 1.1K citations

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Pattern selection in fingered growth phenomena

David A. Kessler, Joel Koplik, Herbert Levine · Advances In Physics · 1988 · 977 citations

Engineering, Biophysics, Fluid Dynamics +14