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Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview

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<strong>Hele</strong>-<strong>Shaw</strong> Cell<br />

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903)<br />

wrote: “<strong>Hele</strong>-<strong>Shaw</strong>’s experi-<br />

ments afford a complete graph-<br />

ical solution, experimentally ob-<br />

tained, of a problem which from<br />

its complexity baffles mathe-<br />

maticians except in a few simple<br />

cases”.<br />

BIRS, Canada, July 2007 – p. 29

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