Wall driven steady flow and heat transfer in a porous tube
Wax deposition in crude oils: a new approach
The complex phenomenon of solid wax deposition in wax saturated crude oils subject to thermal gradients has been treated in a number of papers under very specific assumptions (e.g. thermodynamical equilibrium between dissolved wax and the wax suspended in the oil as a crystallized phase). Here we want to consider a more general framework in which thermodynamical equilibrium may not exist, the whole system may form a gel-like structure in which the segregated solid wax has no diffusivity, the thermal...
Weak solutions for a well-posed Hele-Shaw problem
We analyze existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the well-posed Hele-Shaw problem under general conditions on the fixed boundaries and non-homogeneous governing equation in the unknown domain and non-homogeneous dynamic condition on the free boundary. Our approach allows us also to minimize the restrictions on the boundary and initial data. We derive several estimates on the solutions in spaces, prove a comparison theorem, and show that the solution depends continuously on the initial...