On the Rallison and Acrivos solution for the deformation and burst of a viscous drop in an extensional flow
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 185, 547-550
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112087003306
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.Keywords
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