Drop and spray formation from a liquid jet

SP Lin, RD Reitz - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract A liquid jet emanating from a nozzle into an ambient gas is inherently unstable. It
may break up into drops of diameters comparable to the jet diameter or into droplets of …

Linear stability analysis of surface waves of liquid jet injected in transverse gas flow with different angles

S Kasmaiee, M Tadjfar, S Kasmaiee… - … and Computational Fluid …, 2024 - Springer
A theoretical and experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of injection
angle on surface waves. Linear stability theory was utilized to obtain the analytical relation …

Axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric instability of an electrified viscous coaxial jet

F Li, XY Yin, XZ Yin - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2009 - cambridge.org
A linear study is carried out for the axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric instability of a
viscous coaxial jet in a radial electric field. The outer liquid is considered to be a leaky …

Linear stability analysis of a liquid jet in a weak crossflow

G Amini - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
In an effort to better understand the primary breakup mechanism of liquid jets in crossflow, a
theoretical model for three-dimensional spatial linear stability of a viscous liquid jet injected …

Linear stability analysis of a three-dimensional viscoelastic liquid jet surrounded by a swirling air stream

LJ Yang, MX Tong, QF Fu - Journal of Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, 2013 - Elsevier
A theoretical model is established to investigate the instability of a viscoelastic liquid jet with
axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric disturbances, which is moving in a swirling air stream …

Instability of a viscoelastic liquid jet with axisymmetric and asymmetric disturbances

Z Liu, Z Liu - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2008 - Elsevier
The temporal instability behavior of a viscoelastic liquid jet in the wind-induced regime with
axisymmetric and asymmetric disturbances moving in an inviscid gaseous environment is …

Three-dimensional response of unrelaxed tension to instability of viscoelastic jets

AC Ruo, F Chen, CA Chung, MH Chang - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2011 - cambridge.org
Understanding the cause of instability of viscoelastic liquid jets is of fundamental importance
to realise practical applications such as ink-jet printing, fuel injection spraying, and fibre …

Instability of a charged non-Newtonian liquid jet

AC Ruo, KH Chen, MH Chang, F Chen - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2012 - APS
A three-dimensional instability analysis of an electrified non-Newtonian liquid jet is
performed in this paper so as to understand the competition between viscoelastic stresses …

On the axisymmetry of annular jet instabilities

F Chen, JY Tsaur, F Durst, SK Das - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2003 - cambridge.org
We implement a linear stability analysis for the viscous annular jet surrounded by inviscid
motionless gas subject to three-dimensional disturbances, and an analytical dispersion …

Capillary instabilities in thin nematic liquid crystalline fibers

AG Cheong, AD Rey, PT Mather - Physical Review E, 2001 - APS
A complete identification and characterization of three distinct capillary instabilities in
nematic liquid crystal fibers is presented. Linear stability analysis of capillary instabilities in …