The role of microstructure in taming the Rayleigh capillary instability of cylindrical jets

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00119-5zbMath0956.76029OpenAlexW2007698936MaRDI QIDQ1808298

Qi Wang, M. Gregory Forest

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2789(98)00119-5

zbMATH Keywords

microstructuresurface tensionliquid crystalline polymerslinearized stabilitycylindrical axisymmetric free surface filamentsDoi kinetic theoryRayleigh capillar instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Liquid crystals (76A15) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

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