Exact solution of the Muskat–Leibenzon problem for a growing elliptic bubble

Abstract

The exact solution of the two-phase time-dependent Hele–Shaw problem (in other words, the plane Muskat–Leibenzon problem) in which a fluid occupied an unbounded channel is displaced by another fluid incoming through a slitted cut in the channel. In this case the interface between the phases, namely, fluids of different viscosity, evolves as an ellipse whose area and eccentricity vary continuously.