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Despite its importance in both geophysical and industrial contexts, the inertial fragmentation of gas filaments has received much less attention than their liquid counterparts. Yet, gas filaments produce the smallest bubble sizes, which…
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We experimentally investigate the morphology and breakup of a droplet as it descends freely from a height and encounters an airstream. The size distributions of the child droplets are analysed using high-speed shadowgraphy and in-line…
A mechanism is proposed for initial stage of instability development that can induce the fragmentation of nuclear matter, arising as a result of collisions of non-relativistic heavy nuclei. Collision of heavy nuclei is simulated as a…
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