Applied Math Seminar

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Unsteady fluid fragmentation

Speaker: Lydia Bourouiba, MIT

Location: TBA

Date: Friday, November 20, 2020, 3:55 p.m.

Synopsis:

Despite the complexity and diversity of modes of unsteady fluid fragmentation into secondary droplets, universality across geometry and fluid systems emerges. We discuss the role of unsteadiness in shaping a ubiquitous, yet neglected class of fluid fragmentation problems based on recent joint experimental and theoretical investigations. In particular, we reveal  how unsteadiness and multi-scale dynamics couple to select both the sizes and speeds of secondary droplets generated.

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