Universal pinching of 3D axisymmetric free-surface flow
- 22 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (21), 3458-3460
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.3458
Abstract
We consider the viscous motion of an axisymmetric column of fluid with a free surface. The Navier-Stokes equation forms a singularity as the height of the fluid neck goes to zero. Close to pinchoff, the solutions have a scaling form characterized by a set of universal exponents. The shape of the neck and its velocity field is described by scaling functions, which we predict without adjustable parameters.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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