Singularities in Droplet Pinching with Vanishing Viscosity

DOI10.1137/S0036139998334883zbMATH Open0956.35105arXivchao-dyn/9705005OpenAlexW2110358990MaRDI QIDQ4507271FDOQ4507271

Authors: Jens Eggers 

Publication date: 18 October 2000

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9705005

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zbMATH Keywords

capillary breakupfinite-time singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45)

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