73th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 22, 2020 — November 24, 2020)

V0049: Viscous stabilisation of Rayleigh-Plateau modes on a cylindrical filament through radial oscillatory forcing

Authors
  • Sagar Patankar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • Saswata Basak, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • Palas Kumar Farsoiya, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • Ratul Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2020.GFM.V0049

In this video, we demonstrate the stabilisation of a Rayleigh-Plateau mode on a cylindrical filament through radial oscillatory forcing. Thus, by choosing the forcing parameters carefully, which is predicted from linear theory, we suppress the Rayleigh-Plateau instability.

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