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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3 Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-3
pubmed:abstractText
We present the deformation pathway of critically charged glycol and water droplets from the onset of the Rayleigh instability and compare it to numerical results, obtained for perfectly conducting inviscid droplets. In this simple model presented here, the time evolution of the droplet shape is given by the velocity potential equation. The Laplace equation for the velocity potential is solved by expanding the potential onto harmonic functions. For the part of the pathway dominated by electrostatic pressure, the calculations reproduce the experimental data nicely, obtained for both, glycol and water microdroplets. We find that the droplet shape and in particular the tips, just before charge emission, are well fitted by a lemon shape. We stress that the tip is tangent to a cone of 39 degrees and thus significantly narrower than a Taylor cone.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
036319
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Shape deformations of surface-charged microdroplets.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Ions Lasers (CIRIL), CEA-CNRS-ENSICAEN, Caen, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article