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EPL
Volume 80, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/80/34005
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The velocity of a falling raindrop depends on its size, and thus so does its shape. Here we describe the different simple shapes which model drops falling in air. While millimetric drops remain spherical, owing to the action of surface tension, drops larger than the capillary length get flattened, as sessile drops on solids. Air penetrates still larger globules, which are observed to be unstable. They in. ate till they burst, generating myriads of fragments. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2007
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