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Suppressing capillary instability in falling liquid threads
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A cylindrical liquid thread readily destabilizes into a series of drops due to capillary instability, which is also responsible for undesirable bead-on-fibre structures observed when coating a thin fibre. In this experimental study, we show how a falling liquid thread can be stabilized by internally distorting the cross-sectional shape using two vertically hung fibres. Below a critical flow rate Q(c), the dual-fibre system deforms the falling thread into a smooth column with a non-circular cross-section, thereby suppressing instability. Above Q(c), the cylindrical thread is left undeformed by the fibres and destabilizes into beads connected by a stable, non-cylindrical film. An empirical stability threshold is identified showing that flow delays the onset of capillary instability when compared with a marginally stable quasi-static coating. When the flow is unstable Q>Q(c), the bead velocity $v$ obeys a simple scaling law that is well supported by our experiments over a large parameter range. This suppression technique can be extended to other slender geometries, such as a ribbon, which shows similar qualitative results but exhibits a different stability threshold due to spontaneous dewetting about its short edge.
Keywords:
capillary flows
thin films
instability control
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