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Frequency selection in a gravitationally stretched capillary jet in the jetting regime

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Pith's one-line read For a gravity-stretched capillary jet, the optimal forcing frequency depends strongly on forcing amplitude, and a linear resolvent analysis predicts both the frequency and the breakup length.

desk verdict Solid nonlinear study of a stretched capillary jet with an appealing but under-specified resolvent threshold criterion; worth a serious referee. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.03767 v1 pith:L2DD54GG submitted 2019-08-10 physics.flu-dyn

classification physics.flu-dyn PACS 47.20.Ma47.55.D
keywords capillaryjetgravity-stretchedjettingregimeresolventanalysisoptimalforcingfrequencybreakuplengthWKBJapproximationamplitude
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The reading

The paper studies a vertical capillary jet that gravity stretches and thins as it falls, in the regime where the jet is globally stable and acts as a noise amplifier. It claims that, contrary to what standard linear stability theory assumes, the forcing frequency that produces the shortest breakup length is strongly amplitude-dependent: as the forcing amplitude drops, both the optimal frequency and the intact jet length increase. The paper shows that a local WKBJ analysis misses the nonlinear simulation results quantitatively, whereas a global resolvent analysis of the linearized one-dimensional slender-jet equations, together with the simple criterion that breakup occurs when the linear gain reaches $1/\epsilon$, reproduces the simulated optimal frequency and breakup length. The practical upshot is a route from the imposed forcing amplitude to the drop-formation frequency and jet length without running a nonlinear calculation.

What carries the argument

The central object is the resolvent gain $G_{h,f_u}(\omega,L)$ of the linearized one-dimensional slender-jet operator: the energy norm of the harmonic response in the interface height to unit inlet velocity forcing, measured in a Chebyshev-collocation energy norm with weight matrices $Q$ and $Q_f$. For each domain size $L$, the envelope $G_{\mathrm{opt}}(L)=\max_\omega G_{h,f_u}(\omega,L)$ of the dominant frequency is built; the breakup-threshold identity $G_{\mathrm{opt}}(l_c)=1/\epsilon$ then fixes the breakup length and, through the frequency at which the envelope is crossed, the optimal forcing frequency. The WKBJ amplitude equation serves as the comparison baseline: it improves the zeroth-order spatial gain but still underpredicts the gain magnitude, which is why the resolvent analysis is required for quantitative agreement.

What would settle it

Measure experimentally the breakup length and dominant drop frequency of a gravity-stretched jet with $Oh_{in}=0.3$, $We_{in}=1.75$, $Bo_{in}=0.1$ for amplitudes from $10^{-2}$ down to $10^{-8}$; the resolvent-plus-threshold predicts a monotone rise of $\omega_{\mathrm{opt}}$ and $l_c$ with no saturation, so observing a plateau or an abrupt deviation would directly falsify the criterion.

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Core claim

Using the one-dimensional slender-jet approximation for an axisymmetric jet with inlet parameters $Oh_{in}=0.3$, $We_{in}=1.75$, $Bo_{in}=0.1$, the authors find in nonlinear simulations that the optimal forcing frequency rises from about $1.38$ at amplitude $10^{-2}$ to about $1.68$ at $10^{-4}$, and keeps increasing without visible saturation down to $10^{-8}$, while the breakup length grows with decreasing amplitude. They then construct the dominant-frequency envelope $G_{\mathrm{opt}}(L)$ of the resolvent gain as a function of domain size and impose the order-one breakup criterion $G_{\mathrm{opt}}(l_c)=1/\epsilon$. The crossing of the envelope with the horizontal line $1/\epsilon$ selects both the breakup length $l_c$ and the amplitude-dependent optimal frequency $\omega_{\mathrm{opt}}$ without any input from nonlinear simulations, and the predicted values match the simulations. The amplitude dependence disappears when gravity is removed ($Bo_{in}=0$), where $\omega_{\mathrm{opt}}$ remains fixed as the amplitude varies, showing that the effect is caused by the gravitational stretching of the base flow. Under band-limited white-noise forcing, the jet's breakup statistics remain peaked near the quantities associated with the optimal frequency at the same amplitude.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that breakup happens at the downstream location where the linear response gain first reaches $1/\epsilon$; if a different threshold value or a different way of measuring the response were used, the predicted frequencies and breakup lengths would change, even though the overall trend would survive.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For the jet with $Oh_{in}=0.3$, $We_{in}=1.75$, $Bo_{in}=0.1$, decreasing the forcing amplitude from $10^{-2}$ to $10^{-8}$ raises both the optimal forcing frequency and the breakup length, with no saturation observed at the smallest amplitude.
  • The resolvent envelope alone, with the $G_{\mathrm{opt}}(l_c)=1/\epsilon$ criterion, predicts both quantities without nonlinear simulation input; the remaining discrepancy with simulations is attributed to this threshold criterion.
  • When gravity is absent ($Bo_{in}=0$), the optimal frequency is independent of amplitude, so the amplitude dependence is a distinctive consequence of gravitational stretching of the base flow.
  • Under broadband white-noise forcing, the drop-size and breakup-length statistics remain centered near the values obtained with the optimal frequency at the same amplitude, implying the jet selects the amplifier-preferred mode even when forced with a broad spectrum.
  • Because the jet is globally stable in the jetting regime, no self-sustained oscillations contaminate the response, so the linear resolvent is the appropriate global description of the amplification.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The threshold constant in $G_{\mathrm{opt}}(l_c)=1/\epsilon$ is chosen ad hoc as order one; a different constant would shift $l_c$ and $\omega_{\mathrm{opt}}$ quantitatively, but any monotone threshold would preserve the qualitative rise of $\omega_{\mathrm{opt}}$ as $\epsilon$ falls.
  • The same envelope-crossing construction could be applied to other spatially developing, convectively unstable flows—stretched viscous threads, electrically forced jets, or spinning fibres—wherever the base flow stretches perturbation wavelengths downstream; the amplitude-dependence of the preferred frequency would appear whenever the forcing level changes.
  • The lack of saturation at $10^{-8}$ is falsifiable: experiments or simulations at even smaller amplitudes should show the optimal frequency still climbing if the mechanism is right, and saturating if a competing nonlinear selection or noise floor takes over.
  • The oscillation of the breakup period between main and satellite drop groups suggests that the timing statistics, not just the mean period, carry information about the forcing frequency and could serve as a sensitive experimental probe.
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Summary. The paper investigates how the amplitude of an externally imposed harmonic inlet forcing selects the optimal frequency and breakup length of a gravitationally stretched capillary jet in the jetting regime. The authors use nonlinear simulations of the one-dimensional Eggers & Dupont equations for a jet with Ohin=0.3, Wein=1.75, Boin=0.1 and forcing amplitudes epsilon=10^-2 to 10^-8. The simulations show that lowering the forcing amplitude increases both the breakup length and the optimal forcing frequency, unlike the case Boin=0 where the optimal frequency is amplitude-independent. A local spatial and WKBJ stability analysis fails to reproduce the simulation trends quantitatively. The authors then perform a global resolvent analysis of the linearized operator of the stretched base state. They introduce the envelope G_opt(L) of the maximal resolvent gain over frequency as a function of domain length, and propose the breakup criterion G_opt(lc)=1/epsilon (Eq. 4.34). With this criterion, the resolvent analysis predicts both the optimal frequency and the breakup length as functions of epsilon, in good agreement with the nonlinear simulations (Fig. 13). The paper also compares the jet response under white-noise inlet forcing with the expected response at the optimal frequency.

Significance. If the quantitative predictions are robust, the paper makes a useful contribution by showing that resolvent analysis, supplemented by an amplitude-dependent breakup criterion, can capture the amplitude sensitivity of the preferred frequency in a non-parallel capillary jet, a result that goes beyond the constant-noise-level WKBJ approach of Le Dizès & Villermaux (2017). The strengths of the manuscript are the careful validation of the nonlinear code against van Hoeve et al. (2010) (Appendix 7.3), of the base state and global stability solver against Rubio-Rubio et al. (2013) (Appendices 7.1 and 7.6), and the direct nonlinear evidence for the amplitude dependence of the optimal frequency in Fig. 3. The white-noise analysis in Section 5 provides an additional, falsifiable characterization of the jet response. The central qualitative claim — that omega_opt increases as epsilon decreases in gravity-stretched jets — is convincingly supported by the nonlinear simulations, independent of the resolvent model.

major comments (4)
  1. [§4.2.1 and Eq. (4.34)] The quantitative predictions of Fig. 13 rest on the gain norm through the weight matrices Q and Qf, but these matrices are never specified. Equation (4.29) defines the gain as ||s||^2 = s^† Q s and ||f||^2 = f^† Qf f, yet neither Q nor Qf is given in the text or appendices. Because the Chebyshev discretization and the choice of quadrature weights determine the numerical value of G_opt(L), the crossing condition G_opt(lc)=1/epsilon can be rescaled by an arbitrary norm choice. The authors should provide the explicit expressions for Q and Qf (or a precise reference to the convention used), and report the sensitivity of omega_opt and lc to this choice.
  2. [§4.2.3, Eq. (4.34)] The breakup criterion is an order-one heuristic stated as 'nonlinearity enters the system when a small perturbation epsilon gives rise to a response of the order of 1.' However, the physically local breakup condition is h_b(lc) + epsilon h'(lc) = 0, which requires the local perturbation amplitude to reach h_b(lc)/epsilon, not 1/epsilon; h_b(lc) is smaller than unity in a gravitationally stretched jet. The integrated resolvent norm is only indirectly related to this local condition, so the threshold constant in Eq. (4.34) is not obviously universal. Since both lc and omega_opt are determined by the crossing of G_opt(L) with 1/epsilon, the authors should justify the order-one constant, test the sensitivity of the predicted lc and omega_opt to changing the constant by an O(1) factor, and preferably compare the integrated norm at lc with the local interface amplitude.
  3. [§4.2.3 and Fig. 13] The resolvent predictions are compared with nonlinear simulations for a single parameter set (Ohin=0.3, Wein=1.75, Boin=0.1) and for one combination of forcing and gain definitions (Gh,fu). The agreement in Fig. 13 therefore tests only one point in parameter space. The qualitative trend of rising omega_opt with decreasing epsilon is robust and independently supported, but the quantitative match could be coincidental given the unspecified norm and threshold. To establish the predictive claim, the authors should show at least one additional case with a different Bond or Weber number, or otherwise demonstrate that the threshold constant and the norm choice are not tuned to this single case.
  4. [§4.2.1, outlet boundary condition] In solving the resolvent equation (4.28), the outlet boundary condition is replaced by the local spatial response k_+(omega,L), and the authors state that this is imposed on a larger domain L' > L so that the response over L is independent of the boundary condition. No convergence data or figure is provided to support this assertion. Because G_opt(L) is the central quantity in the breakup criterion, the independence of the computed gain from L' and from the specific outlet closure should be demonstrated explicitly.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Fig. 1 caption] The caption contains the doubled article: 'the the breakup length is the minimum'; please correct.
  2. [Section 1 and Eq. (1.3b)] The variables Ohin and Boin are introduced as controlling parameters, but the text later uses Ohz and Wez for local quantities; please define once and keep notation consistent throughout.
  3. [Section 4.2.1, Eq. (4.28)] The word 'downstream' is misspelled as 'donwstream' in the sentence introducing the outlet boundary condition.
  4. [Section 2.3] The forcing frequency range is written as 'omega = [0.4− 3.2]'; please clarify whether this is the sampled discrete set or a continuous interval, and how many frequencies were simulated for each amplitude.
  5. [Fig. 3 caption] The caption says 'The black circles represent the data from numerical simulations,' but the figure appears to show curves for each epsilon rather than isolated circles; please clarify the plotting conventions.
  6. [References] The reference to 'Mantiˇ c-Lugo & Gallaire (2016)' uses an unusual accent placement; please check the spelling and formatting against the journal style.

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No significant circularity: the resolvent predictions of optimal frequency and breakup length are independent of the nonlinear simulations, and the breakup criterion is a stated heuristic rather than a fitted input.

full rationale

The paper's central quantitative claim is that the resolvent gain envelope G_opt(L), computed from the linearized Eggers-Dupont operator for the gravitationally stretched base flow, predicts the optimal forcing frequency and breakup length when crossed with the threshold G_opt(l_c) ~ 1/epsilon (Eq. 4.34). This is not circular: the gain is computed from the base state and linearized equations alone (Section 4.2.1), with no information imported from the nonlinear simulations. The forcing amplitude enters only through the order-one breakup criterion, which the authors explicitly label as an ad-hoc approximation when discussing residual differences from the simulations. The threshold constant is not fitted to the simulation curves in Fig. 13; it is taken at its natural order-one value. The unresolved choices are the unspecified Chebyshev weight matrices Q and Qf and the integrated-norm nature of the gain, but these affect robustness and quantitative accuracy, not whether the derivation reduces by construction to its inputs. The WKBJ and resolvent procedures cite prior work by members of the same group (Viola et al. 2016; Mantič-Lugo & Gallaire 2016), but the WKBJ amplitude equation is derived in Appendix 7.7 and the resolvent SVD method is standard; no load-bearing step depends on an unverified self-citation. The scheme is also validated against independent external data (Rubio-Rubio et al. 2013; van Hoeve et al. 2010). Thus the derivation chain is self-contained and the central predictions have independent content.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central predictions rest on four load-bearing inputs: the one-dimensional Eggers-Dupont model, the artificial closure conditions for the base flow and the resolvent problem, the ad hoc breakup threshold with the associated energy norm, and the band-limited noise model. The threshold constant and the norm choice are the modeling degrees of freedom that most directly control the quantitative claims; neither is fitted to the simulation results. No free constants of nature are introduced and no new physical entities are invented.

free parameters (2)
  • Breakup threshold constant C in G_opt(lc) = C/epsilon = 1 (assumed, not fitted)
    Eq. (4.34) sets breakup at the domain size where the linear gain reaches the inverse amplitude. The constant 1 rests on the heuristic that nonlinear effects begin when the response reaches order 1. The authors call the criterion ad hoc and attribute residual differences with simulations to it.
  • Gain norm weight matrices Q and Qf = Chebyshev-space discretized norms (matrices not tabulated)
    Section 4.2.1 defines the gain in Eq. (4.29) through weight matrices Q and Qf. The quantitative threshold crossing, and therefore the predicted breakup length, depends on this norm choice; the paper does not test sensitivity to it.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The one-dimensional Eggers-Dupont slender-jet equations describe the gravity-stretched jetting regime accurately enough for quantitative breakup predictions.
    The entire study, Sections 1 and 2, is built on this reduced model. Validation is against a parallel micro-jet (van Hoeve et al. 2010) and steady thread shapes (Rubio-Rubio et al. 2013), not against experiments on forced gravity-stretched jets in this regime.
  • domain assumption Artificial outlet conditions (h'_b = h''_b = 0 for the base flow; spatial-response condition at L' greater than L for the resolvent) close the problems without contaminating the response over L.
    Section 1 and Section 4.2.1 state that these are closures, not physical boundary conditions, and report checks that results are independent of domain size. This is a reasonable but empirical check, not a proof.
  • ad hoc to paper Breakup begins when the linear response norm reaches G_opt(lc) = 1/epsilon.
    Eq. (4.34) is the load-bearing premise for the quantitative optimal-frequency and breakup-length predictions. The authors label it an approximation and state that residual differences with simulations in Fig. 13 likely come from it.
  • domain assumption Band-limited white noise with omega_b/2pi = 1 and the chosen interpolation procedure represents realistic broadband inlet disturbances.
    Section 5, Eqs. (5.35) and (5.36). The statistics of breakup length and drop radius depend on the band-limiting frequency; a single value is used and no sensitivity study is provided.
  • domain assumption Forcing the inlet velocity only (Eq. 2.8), with no forcing of the interface height, captures the relevant receptivity channel.
    The nonlinear simulations, resolvent comparison, and breakup-length predictions all use velocity-only inlet forcing. The resolvent analysis also considers forcing in both height and velocity for comparison with spatial theory, but the central amplitude study uses velocity only.

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A capillary jet falling under the effect of gravity continuously stretches while thinning downstream. We report here the effect of external periodic forcing on such a spatially varying jet in the jetting regime. Surprisingly, the optimal forcing frequency producing the most unstable jet is found to be highly dependent on the forcing amplitude. Taking benefit of the one-dimensional Eggers & Dupont (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 262, 1994, 205-221) equations, we investigate the case through nonlinear simulations and linear stability analysis. In the local framework the WKBJ formalism, established for weakly non-parallel flows, fails to capture the nonlinear simulation results quantitatively. However in the global framework, the resolvent analysis supplemented by a simple approximation of the required response norm inducing breakup, is shown to correctly predict the optimal forcing frequency at a given forcing amplitude and the resulting jet breakup length. The results of the resolvent analysis are found to be in good agreement with those of the nonlinear simulations.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. The plot shows the jet intact shape along the axial direction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Breakup characteristics for a gravity jet defined by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The plot shows the breakup length lc as a function of forcing frequency ω for a gravity jet defined by Ohin = 0.3, Boin = 0.1 and Wein = 1.75. Each curve is indicative of a fixed forcing amplitude . For a fixed , the optimal forcing frequency related to the shortest lc is represented by a red cross. We observe that the optimal frequency increases as  decreases and does not appear to saturate even for lower amplit… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The plot shows the absolute-convective transition (represented by full and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png]
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The plot shows the stretching (or necking) close to the nozzle, of the base flow [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png]
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The four k branches shown in four different colours, obtained as a solution of the dispersion relation for complex ω and for increasing values of ωi for a jet defined by Ohin = 0.3, Boin = 0.1 and Wein = 1.75, at (a) the nozzle outlet z = 0 and (b) the jet exit z = L =…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: (a) Growth rate −ki for a jet defined by Ohin = 0.3, Boin = 0.1 and Wein = 1.75, plotted as a function of the frequency for the four k branches at the nozzle exit with the dominant k branch represented in black. (b) Represents the growth rate corresponding to the domin…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of the total gain G at different frequencies ω from the resolvent analysis and the spatial analysis for domain sizes (a)L = 50 and (b)L = 60 and for the jet defined by Ohin = 0.3, Boin = 0.1 and Wein = 1.75. The resolvent gain is computed by using the transf…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: (a),(c)Eigenvalue spectrum λ obtained for three different nodes N1 = 100, N2 = 125 and N3 = 150 and (b),(d)the real and imaginary parts of the leading eigenfunction h˜, for Ohin = 0.3, Boin = 0.1, L = 50 and evaluated for two different values of inlet Weber. (a),(b) Co…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: (a) Eigenvalue spectrum λ obtained for three different nodes N1 = 100, N2 = 125 and N3 = 150 and (b) the real and imaginary parts of the leading eigenfunction h¯, for Ohin = 0.3, Boin = 0.1, Wein = 0.002 and L = 50. We note that the leading eigenvalue has a positive g…
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Comparison of the total gain at different frequencies from the resolvent analysis [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: (a) Resolvent gain computed for h˜ with a forcing applied only in u for different values of domain sizes for a jet defined by Ohin = 0.3, Boin = 0.1 and Wein = 1.75. Each curve is representative of a constant frequency. (b) The dominant frequency envelope as a functio…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Comparison of breakup characteristics obtained from the nonlinear simulations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: (a) White noise signal with unit power, comparing a signal without filter and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Comparison of the normalised frequency of the drop radius [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: (a)-(b) refer to the comparison of the normalised frequency of the breakup [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Comparison of the steady state solution with results from Rubio-Rubio [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Time-sequence plot of a simulation with Ohin = 0.3, Wein = 1.75, Boin = 0.1 excited with a forcing of amplitude  = 10−2 and frequency ω = 0.8 and initialised (a) as a tip (b) using the base state solution. Comparison of the breakup length and period for both the case…
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Numerical solutions of the governing equations (2.7) for a jet in an inert [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_19.png]
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Nonlinear simulation results for optimal forcing frequency [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_20.png]
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Comparison of gain and ωopt obtained from the resolvent analysis and spatial analysis for two different domain sizes (a) L = 25 and (b) L = 50 for a jet in absence of gravity and characterised by Oh = 0.3 and We = 1.75. Irrespective of the domain size and the method e…
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Resolvent and spatial response (|a| and |u|) of the jet characterised by Ohin = 0.3, Wein = 1.75 and Boin = 0.1 at (a)-(b) ω = 1 and (c)-(d) ω = 1.5 with a domain size L = 50 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Eigenvalue spectrum λ, steady state shape of the jet hb, and the real and imaginary parts of leading eigenfunction, h˜ for Ohin = 1.68, Boin = 1.81 and (a) Wein = 8 × 10−3 (b) Wein = 3 × 10−3 . Results in black are from Rubio-Rubio et al. (2013) and in red are from th…
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Comparison of critical Weber number, Weinc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_24.png]

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