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Emanating Jets As Shaped by Surface Tension Forces.

ABSTRACT: We show that emanating jets can be regarded as growing liquid towers, which are shaped by the twofold action of surface tension: first the emanated fluid is being accelerated back by surface tension force, herewith creating the boundary conditions to solve the shape of the liquid tower as a solution of an equation mathematically related to the hydrostatic Young-Laplace equation, known to give solutions for the shape of pending and sessile droplets, and wherein the only relevant forces are gravity g and surface tension ?. We explain that for an emanating jet under specific constraints all mass parts with density ? will experience a uniform time dependent acceleration a( t). An asymptotic solution is subsequently numerically derived by making the corresponding Young-Laplace type equation dimensionless and by dividing all lengths by a generalized time dependent capillary length ?_c( t) = [Formula: see text]. The time dependent surface tension ?( t) can be derived by measuring both time dependent acceleration a( t) and time dependent capillary length ?_c( t). Jetting experiments with water and coffee show that the dynamic surface tension behavior according to the emanating jet method and with the well-known maximum bubble pressure method are the same, herewith verifying the proposed model.

SUBMITTER: van Rijn CJM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249651 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Emanating Jets As Shaped by Surface Tension Forces.

van Rijn Cees J M CJM

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20181102 46

We show that emanating jets can be regarded as growing liquid towers, which are shaped by the twofold action of surface tension: first the emanated fluid is being accelerated back by surface tension force, herewith creating the boundary conditions to solve the shape of the liquid tower as a solution of an equation mathematically related to the hydrostatic Young-Laplace equation, known to give solutions for the shape of pending and sessile droplets, and wherein the only relevant forces are gravit ...[more]

PMID: 30293434

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