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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 344 2 c ii Solution by
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For , the dimensional expression is again . Independence of dynamic viscosity requires , giving inertial hydrodynamic coarsening:For this law, both inertial terms and the capillary term scale as , whereas the viscous term scales as . It is consequently subleading at large . Direct substitution gives the leading amplitude conditionA growing branch requires the indicated ratio to be positive. The inertial combination must be nonzero: if its leading acceleration and convective contributions cancel, so this particular schematic equation cannot realize the generic inertial-capillary balance with that pure power law. The requested scaling assumes no such geometrical degeneracy. This also shows why the coefficients cannot determine a universal numerical prefactor without a morphology calculation. The relative viscous contribution decays as , consistently with an increasingly large domain-scale Reynolds number.
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