1997/04/30 by Jens Eggers, Eggers, Jens · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity #chao-dyn #nlin.CD #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.chao-dyn/9705005
18 pages including 4 eps figures, revtex
openalex publication_date 1997/04/30 · arxiv created 1999/01/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A slender-jet model for the pinching of a liquid column is considered in the limit of vanishing viscosity. We find the model to develop a singularity in the gradients of the local radius and the velocity at a finite thread radius, so it does not describe breakup. However, the observed steepening of the profile corresponds to experiments and simulations with fluids at low viscosity. The singularity has similarity form, which we compute analytically. The result agrees well with numerical simulations of the model equations.