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Universality of satellites in the breakup of a stretched fluid bridge

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: A slowly stretched fluid bridge is destined to break, leaving behind a satellite droplet. Combining experiments and one-dimensional simulations, the size of this droplet is shown to be highly reproducible. It is demonstrated to follow a simple formula depending only on the normalized volume of the bridge and the Weber number, so by stretching the bridge faster or increasing its volume the droplet size can be dramatically increased. The robustness of the satellite size is revealed to be due to an underlying universal dynamical solution.

Source: Physical Review Fluids

DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.10.063604

Authors: Anna Frishman, Daniel Lecoanet

Institutions: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Subfield: Computational Mechanics

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Israel Science Foundation

Awards: G1462444196, G2707770085, G3059513448, G3262369115, G989069552