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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 677, Issue -, Pages 204-217Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.76
Keywords
drops; capillary waves; multiphase flow
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The analysis of surface oscillations of liquid drops allows measurements of the surface tension and viscosity of the liquid. For small oscillations of spherical drops with a free surface, classical formulae by Rayleigh and Lamb relate these quantities to the frequency and damping of the oscillations. In many cases, however, the drop's surface is covered by a surface film, typically an oxide layer or a surfactant, exhibiting a rheological behaviour different from the bulk fluid. It is the purpose of this paper to investigate how such surface properties influence the oscillation spectrum of a spherical drop. For small bulk shear viscosity, the cases of small, finite and large surface viscosities are discussed, and the onset of aperiodic motion as a function of the surface parameters is also derived.
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