Filament dynamics in vertical confined chemical gardens.

When confined to a Hele-Shaw cell, chemical gardens can grow as filaments, narrow structures with an erratic and tortuous trajectory. In this work, the methodology applied to studies with horizontal Hele-Shaw cells is adapted to a vertical configuration, thus introducing the effect of buoyancy into the system. The motion of a single filament tip is modeled by taking into account its internal pressure and the variation of the concentration of precipitate that constitutes the chemical garden membrane. While the model shows good agreement with the results, it also suggests that the concentration of the host solution of sodium silicate also plays a role in the growth of the structures despite being in stoichiometric excess.

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