Suekane Lab

Tokyo Institute of Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Course / Energy Course

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Hele-Shaw cell experiments


Citric acid -> Baking soda

Bubbles are generated at the interface due to the reaction between citric acid and baking soda

Weicen Wang, Chunwei Zhang, Anindityo Patmonoaji, Yingxue Hu, Shintaro Matsushita, Tetsuya Suekane, and Yuichiro Nagatsu, Viscous fingering with gas generation with chemical reaction in a Hele-Shaw cell, Physics of Fluids 33, 093104 (2021) DOI: 10.1063/5.0062588
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0062588


Sesame oil -> Tooth paste

Tooth paste is a non-Newtonian.


Orange juice -> Worcestershire sauce

Pure viscous fingering that may taste awkward.


Borax -> Laundry starch

Fingering with Slime production. The mushroom-shaped explosions are repeated.


Vinegar -> Soy milk

Viscous fingering with yogurt production. Bacteria colony instability?
See:
Yamaguchi and Suekane, Relationship between the shape of fingering by gel formation and diffusion phenomena in interfacial gel films
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsmeted/2020/0/2020_0016/_article/-char/ja/

Podgorski et al., Fingering instabilities of a reactive micellar interface, Phy. Rev. E, 76, 01622 (2007)
Ben-Jacob at al., Generic modelling of cooperative growth patterns in bacterial colonies, Nature, 368, 46-49 (1994)