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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 86, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.015301
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- United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G029458/1, EP/H018913/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H018913/1, EP/G029458/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G029458/1, EP/H018913/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The final stages of pinchoff and breakup of dripping droplets of near-inviscid Newtonian fluids are studied experimentally for pure water and ethanol. High-speed imaging and image analysis are used to determine the angle and the minimum neck size of the cone-shaped extrema of the ligaments attached to dripping droplets in the final microseconds before pinchoff. The angle is shown to steadily approach the value of 18.0 +/- 0.4 degrees, independently of the initial flow conditions or the type of breakup. The filament thins and necks following a tau(2/3) law in terms of the time remaining until pinchoff, regardless of the initial conditions. The observed behavior confirms theoretical predictions.
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