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Collapse of spherical bubbles in fluids with nonlinear viscosity


Authors: M. A. Brutyan and P. L. Krapivsky
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 51 (1993), 745-749
MSC: Primary 76D99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1247438
MathSciNet review: MR1247438
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Abstract: An analysis is given of the collapse of a spherical bubble in a large body of a viscous incompressible fluid with strain-dependent nonlinear viscosity. Two types of asymptotic behaviors are found analytically, namely the collapse over finite time and viscous damping over infinite time.


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