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Fingering in porous media

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Macroscopic Properties of Disordered Media

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA

    P. G. Saffman

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Saffman, P.G. (1982). Fingering in porous media. In: Burridge, R., Childress, S., Papanicolaou, G. (eds) Macroscopic Properties of Disordered Media. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-11202-2_15

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