The role of charge relaxation in electrified tip streaming

We study experimentally and numerically the onset of tip streaming in an electrified droplet. The experiments show that, for a sufficiently small dimensionless conductivity, the droplet apex oscillates before ejecting a liquid jet. This effect is caused by the limited charge transfer from the bulk t...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-12
Main Authors: Rubio, M, Rodríguez-Díaz, P, López-Herrera, J M, Herrada, M A, Gañán-Calvo, A M, Montanero, J M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Charge transfer
Droplets
Shear stress
Stability analysis
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Summary:We study experimentally and numerically the onset of tip streaming in an electrified droplet. The experiments show that, for a sufficiently small dimensionless conductivity, the droplet apex oscillates before ejecting a liquid jet. This effect is caused by the limited charge transfer from the bulk to the interface. This reduces the electrostatic pressure at the droplet's stretching tip, preventing liquid ejection. This reduction of electrostatic pressure is compensated for by the electric shear stress arising during the apex oscillations, which eventually leads to the jet formation. The stability limit calculated from the global stability analysis perfectly agrees with the experimental results. However, this analysis predicts non-oscillatory, non-localized instability in all the cases, suggesting that both the oscillatory behavior and the small local scale characterizing tip streaming arise during the nonlinear droplet deformation.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2212.05806