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According to observations, drops freely falling in the air under the action of gravity are deformed and oscillate in a wide range of frequencies and scales. A technique for calculating surface axisymmetric oscillations of a deformed droplet in the linear approximation under the assumption that the amplitude and wavelength are small when compared to the droplet diameter is proposed. The basic form of an axisymmetric droplet is chosen from observations. The calculation results for surface oscillations agree with recorded data on the varying shape of water droplets falling in the air.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Kistovich, Yu.D. Chashechkin, 2018, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 2.
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Kistovich, A.V., Chashechkin, Y.D. Surface Oscillations of a Free-Falling Droplet of an Ideal Fluid. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 54, 182–188 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433818020123
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