Journal
JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
Volume 70, Issue 1-3, Pages 321-331Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10665-010-9443-3
Keywords
Drops; Free surface; Slender fluid thread; Viscous flow
Funding
- Australian Research Council [DP0450047]
- Australian Research Council [DP0450047] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The extensional flow and break-up of fluids has long interested many authors. A slender viscous fluid drop falling under gravity from beneath a horizontal surface is examined. After reviewing previous work which has neglected surface tension, a one-dimensional model which describes the evolution of such a drop, beginning with a prescribed initial drop shape and including the effects of gravity and surface tension, is investigated. Inertial effects are ignored due to the high viscosity of the fluid. Particular attention is paid to the boundary condition near the bottom of the drop where the one-dimensional approximation is no longer valid. The evolving shape of the drop is calculated up to a crisis time at which the cross-sectional area at some location goes to zero. Results are compared with those obtained when surface tension is neglected. Near to the crisis time, as the Reynolds number increases and inertia becomes non-negligible, the model assumptions are invalid so that the model does not describe actual pinch-off of a fluid drop.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available