2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Investigation of the Evolution and Breakup of Electrically Charged Drops
Authors : S. I. Betel, M. A. Fontelos, U. Kindelán, O. Vantzos
Published in: Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2006
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We study the evolution of charged droplets of a conducting viscous liquid. The flow is driven by electrostatic repulsion and capillarity and may lead to the breakup of the droplets. These droplets are known to be linearly unstable when the electric charge is above the Rayleigh critical value. Here we investigate the nonlinear evolution that develops after the linear regime.