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Snaking of a fluid in two dimensions

Soft Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The nature of physical processes can depend substantially on the dimensionality of a system. One such example are buckling instabilities, which arise from the competition between axial compression and bending in elastic filaments. Thus, coiling of a jet of viscous fluid falling on a substrate (honey poured on a toast) \cite{maha1,griffiths} behaves quite differently from the coiling of viscous sheets (volcanous lava sliding on a crust) \cite{johnson,ramberg}. Here we consider a novel effect of coiling of a fluid jet confined to a two dimensional film.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811301,
  title  = {Snaking of a fluid in two dimensions},
  author = {Maksim Skorobogatiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811301},
  year   = {2007}
}

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2 pages 2 figures

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