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Capillary Instability

Capillary Instability is a physical phenomenon in fluid dynamics wherein a cylindrical liquid jet breaks up into droplets due to surface tension-driven perturbations amplified by the imbalance between cohesive forces and disruptive inertial or viscous forces.

328

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19.3K

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710

Authors

335

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2017–2026

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Variants

Plateau-rayleigh InstabilityRayleigh-plateau Instability

Parents

Publications

328

XVI. <i>On the instability of a cylinder of viscous liquid under capillary force</i>

Lord Rayleigh · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science · 1892 · 612 citations

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Spinodal Dewetting of Thin Polymer Films

Rui Xie, Alamgir Karim, Jack F. Douglas et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1998 · 598 citations

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Mechanism for Flow-Rate Controlled Breakup in Confined Geometries: A Route to Monodisperse Emulsions

Piotr Garstecki, Howard A. Stone, George M. Whitesides · Physical Review Letters · 2005 · 582 citations

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Polymer Particles with Various Shapes and Morphologies Produced in Continuous Microfluidic Reactors

Zhihong Nie, Shengqing Xu, Minseok Seo et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005 · 525 citations

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The instability of capillary jets

Arthur M. Sterling, C. A. Sleicher · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1975 · 328 citations

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Authors

710

  1. PH
    Paul H. Steen

    Cornell University, United States

    7 publications · 396 citations

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  2. AL
    Alexander L. Yarin

    University of Illinois Chicago, United States

    6 publications · 698 citations

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  3. AM
    Alfonso M. Gañán‐Calvo

    Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

    5 publications · 228 citations

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  4. TF
    Toshio Funada

    University of Minnesota, United States

    5 publications · 338 citations

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  5. HA
    Howard A. Stone

    Princeton University, United States

    5 publications · 812 citations

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Institutions

335

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    18 h-index

    51 publications

    2.6K citations

  2. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    909 citations

  3. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    23 publications

    1.2K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    19 publications

    2.7K citations

  6. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    1.5K citations

  7. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    1.3K citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    7 h-index

    14 publications

    537 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    61 publications · 4.8K citations

    36

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  2. Physics of Fluids

    30 publications · 1.4K citations

    21

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  3. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 14 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. Langmuir

    12 publications · 602 citations

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  5. Soft Matter

    10 publications · 268 citations

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