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  • V62 Torsion paper for small Rb _ updated following referees comments

    Rights statement: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Abdullah Madhi Alsharif, Stephen P Decent, Emilian I Părău, Mark J H Simmons, Jamal Uddin; The trajectory of slender curved liquid jets for small Rossby number, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, , hxy054, https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxy054 is available online at: http://imamat.oxfordjournals.org/

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The trajectory of slender curved liquid jets for small Rossby number

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>25/01/2019
<mark>Journal</mark>IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
Issue number1
Volume84
Number of pages22
Pages (from-to)96–117
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date5/10/18
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Wallwork et al. (2002) and Decent et al. (2002) developed an asymptotic method for describing the trajectory and instability of slender curved liquid jets. Decent et al. (2018) showed that this method is accurate for slender curved jets when the torsion of the centreline of the jet is small or O(1), but the asymptotic method may become invalid when the torsion is asymptotically large. This paper examines the torsion for a slender steady curved jet which emerges from an orifice on the outer surface of a rapidly rotating container. The torsion may become asymptotically large close to the orifice when the Rossby number Rb≪1, which corresponds to especially high rotation rates. This paper examines this asymptotic limit in different scenarios and shows that the torsion may become asymptotically large inside a small inner region close to the orifice where the jet is not slender. Outer region equations which describe the slender jet are determined and the torsion is found not to be asymptotically large in the outer region, and these equations can always be used to describe the jet even when the torsion is asymptotically large close to the orifice. It is in this outer region where travelling waves propagate down the jet and cause it to rupture in the unsteady formulation, and so the method developed by Wallwork et al. (2002) and Decent et al. (2002) can be used to accurately study the jet dynamics even when the torsion is asymptotically large at the orifice.

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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Abdullah Madhi Alsharif, Stephen P Decent, Emilian I Părău, Mark J H Simmons, Jamal Uddin; The trajectory of slender curved liquid jets for small Rossby number, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, , hxy054, https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxy054 is available online at: http://imamat.oxfordjournals.org/