An examination of the scaling structure along with some extensive simulations on viscous fingering in circular geometry strongly suggest that the asymptotic patterns are compact. Experiments and simulations are in a transient regime that may exhibit a reasonable range where apparent fractal growth may be found. Arguments to connect the case of viscous fingering with that of vanishing surface tension are made.
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