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On the Rallison and Acrivos solution for the deformation and burst of a viscous drop in an extensional flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

Henry Power
Henry Power
Affiliation:
Institute de Mecánica de Fluídos, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Ciudad Universitaria, C.P. 1041-A, Caracas, Venezuela
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Abstract

In this work we prove that the second-kind Fredholm's integral equations proposed by Rallison & Acrivos to solve the deformation and burst of a viscous drop in an extensional flow, with viscosity ratio λ, possess a unique continuous solution u(x) for any continuous datum F(x) when 0 < λ < ∞. In the original work they could only guarantee, analytically, the solvability of the integral equations in a small neighbourhood of λ = 1.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 185 , December 1987 , pp. 547 - 550
Copyright
© 1987 Cambridge University Press

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