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Stability of coflowing capillary jets under nonaxisymmetric perturbations
J M Montanero1, A M Gañán-Calvo
1Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Energética y de los Materiales, Universidad de Extremadura, E-06071 Badajoz, Spain. jmm@unex.es
Abstract:
In this paper, linear hydrodynamic stability analysis is used to study the response of a capillary jet and a coflowing fluid to both axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric perturbations. The temporal analysis revealed that nonaxisymmetric perturbations were damped (or overdamped) within the region of parameter space explored, which involved equal velocities for the jet and focusing fluid. It is explained how an extension to a spatiotemporal analysis implies that those perturbations can yield no transition from convective (jetting) to absolute (whipping) instability for that parameter region. This result provides a theoretical explanation for the absence of that kind of transition in most experimental results in the literature.
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