Drainage volume decay in a dipole porous current ($V\propto t^{-1/4}$)

For the dipole similarity solution of a draining porous current, $V=\varphi \int hdx=\varphi ad{t}^{-1/4}/18$. Thus $\dot{V}/V=-1/(4t)$. A shifted similarity origin replaces $t$ by $t+t_0$. Neither a positive rate nor a rate $-1/(2t)$ is compatible with this two-dimensional first-moment-conserving profile.