Discontinuous behavior of liquids between parallel and tilted plates
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (United States)
Discontinuous behavior of liquids between parallel and tilted plates in the absence of gravity is discussed. A principal finding, derived mathematically from the classical Young{endash}Laplace{endash}Gauss formulation for capillary free surfaces, is that in a large range of configurations liquid bridges between parallel plates are unstable with respect to small, even infinitesimal, tilting of one of the plates. Under a computationally based hypothesis of uniqueness of spherical bridges in a wedge, it is shown that the same discontinuous behavior prevails for all but very particular circumstances. The various liquid configurations, which form the basis for an experiment on board the Space Station {ital Mir}, are characterized and illustrated. {copyright} {ital 1998 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 565740
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Fluids (1994), Vol. 10, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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