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Blowing a liquid curtain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2016

H. Lhuissier ,
P. Brunet  and
S. Dorbolo
H. Lhuissier*
Affiliation:
IUSTI, UMR 7343, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, 13453 Marseille, France
P. Brunet
Affiliation:
MSC, UMR 7057, CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot, 75205 Paris, France
S. Dorbolo
Affiliation:
GRASP, FRS-FNRS, Université de Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium
*
†Email address for correspondence: henri.lhuissier@univ-amu.fr
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Abstract

We study the response of a steady free-falling liquid curtain perturbed by focused air jets blowing perpendicularly against it. Asymmetric and symmetric perturbations are applied by using either a single pulsed jet or two identical steady jets facing each other. The response strongly depends on the curtain flow rate, and the location and strength of the perturbation. For pulsed asymmetric perturbations of increasing amplitude, sinuous wave, drop ejection, bubble ejection and hole opening are successively observed. For steady symmetric perturbations, a steady hole forms downstream in the wake. For this latter case, we present a model for the curtain thickness and the location of the hole in the wake in terms of the curtain flow rate and the size, flow rate and location of the jets. The adjustable-parameter-free expression we obtain compares favourably to the experiments provided that the perturbation is sufficiently small (jet stagnation pressure smaller than curtain stagnation pressure) and the liquid viscosity is negligible.

JFM classification

Drops and Bubbles: Breakup/coalescence Interfacial Flows (free surface): Interfacial Flows (free surface) Interfacial Flows (free surface): Thin films

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 795 , 25 May 2016 , pp. 784 - 807
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