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The deformation and breakup of a slender drop in an extensional flow: inertial effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

J. F. Brady  and
A. Acrivos
J. F. Brady
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Present address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
A. Acrivos
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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Abstract

The analysis of Acrivos & Lo (1978) for the deformation and breakup of a slender drop placed symmetrically in an axisymmetric pure straining flow is extended to include the effects of the fluid inertia within the drop. It is shown that, although the flow pattern within the drop is very complicated, internal inertia always tends to stabilize the drop. This stabilizing effect is, however, so weak that, for all practical purposes, it can be ignored.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 115 , February 1982 , pp. 443 - 451
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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