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Oscillations of liquid drops: results from USML-1 experiments in Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

T. G. Wang ,
A. V. Anilkumar  and
C. P. Lee
T. G. Wang
Affiliation:
Center for Microgravity Research and Applications, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
A. V. Anilkumar
Affiliation:
Center for Microgravity Research and Applications, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
C. P. Lee
Affiliation:
Center for Microgravity Research and Applications, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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Abstract

Oscillations of low-viscosity drops were studied in the microgravity environment of a Space shuttle flight. From the damped oscillation data, the inviscid frequency shift, due to nonlinearity, has been extracted using a central-averaging scheme. For the classical case of the oscillations of a free low-viscosity drop, it has been found that the frequency shift agrees well with the predictions of the inviscid nonlinear theory of Tsamopoulos & Brown (1983) for ε < 0.3. But for the oscillations of a rotating low-viscosity drop, under acoustic levitation, the frequency shift is smaller, and the percentage of time spent in prolate displacement is significantly less than that for the classical case.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 308 , 10 February 1996 , pp. 1 - 14
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© 1996 Cambridge University Press

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