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A stationary microporous network removes fluid momentum through linear drag rather than through a domain-scale viscous stress. With $[\bar{\eta }]=\mathrm{M}{\mathrm{L}}^{-3}{\mathrm{T}}^{-1}$, the single-scale force estimate becomesThis drag-limited hydrodynamic coarsening closure uses a fixed isotropic drag coefficient and domain sizes large compared with the pore scale. The only length and time made from $\rho ,\sigma ,\bar{\eta }$ areIndeed $L_1^3=\sigma t_1^2/\rho$, while the choice of $t_1$ equates inertial and drag prefactors. With $L=L_{1}g(u)$ and $u=t/t_1$, all force terms share $\rho L_1/t_1^2=\bar{\eta }{L}_1/t_1=\sigma /L_1^2$. ThereforeAs before, a parameter-free function of this one argument refers to the asymptotic advective scaling model with fixed morphology and negligible extra scales. Retaining the diffusive mobility or resolved network geometry can introduce additional dimensionless parameters. The original $\eta$ does not remain as an independent viscous coefficient after the stipulated replacement.

Use the intended regular scaling ansatz: $g(u)\sim C{u}^y$, $g^{\prime }(u)\sim Cy{u}^{y-1}$ and $g^{\prime \prime }(u)=Cy(y-1)u^{y-2}+o(u^{y-2})$, with $C>0$, $y>0$. Relative to the drag magnitude $g^{\prime }$, the two inertial contributions obeyThus both inertial-to-drag ratios tend to zero at large $u$, whatever the positive growth exponent; for $y=1$ the leading acceleration term vanishes identically. The long-time drag-limited hydrodynamic coarsening balance is thereforesoThe leading law is independent of mass density. Within the drag-capillary reduction, finite initial data give $L^3(t)-L^3(t_{\ast })=3(c_s/c_d)(\sigma /\bar{\eta })(t-t_{\ast })$.

The derivative hypotheses are important: bare $g(u)\sim u^y$ does not justify differentiating an asymptotic equivalence. For instance, $g(u)=u+\frac{1}{2}{\int }_1^u\sin (s^3)ds$ is smooth and increasing, with $g(u)/u\to 1$, but $g^{\prime \prime }=\frac{3}{2}{u}^2\cos (u^3)$ is not small compared with $g^{\prime }=1+\frac{1}{2}\sin (u^3)$. This is a counterexample to an inference from the bare asymptotic relation, not a solution of the coarsening equation. The physical claim uses the regular self-similar power law, for which the ratio calculation above applies.

This conclusion concerns the model's advective drag-capillary channel. Diffusive Ostwald ripening can also have a $1/3$ growth exponent; equality of exponents does not establish that diffusion is negligible. If it is retained, the prefactor and crossover function may also depend on order-parameter mobility, and one must compare transport mechanisms rather than infer the mechanism from the exponent alone.