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Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview

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Stream-line Flow Methods<br />

The most notable <strong>Hele</strong>-<strong>Shaw</strong>’s scientific research came<br />

from his desire to exhibit on a large screen the character of<br />

the flow past an object contained in a lantern slide for<br />

students in Liverpool:<br />

<strong>Hele</strong>-<strong>Shaw</strong> wanted to visualize stream lines. He tried<br />

colouring liquid (unsuitable, immediately mixed), sand<br />

(formed eddies, modified the flow)...<br />

BIRS, Canada, July 2007 – p. 20

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