Abstract
For Reynolds numbers Re ≪1 an analytical relation is obtained for the dependence of the critical size of a liquid droplet on the amplitude and frequency of a sound field, surface tension, dynamic viscosity of gas with allowance for prehistory of motion and reattachment of mass.
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Academic Scientific Complex “A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus,” Minsk. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 753–755, September–October, 1996.
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Kuts, P.S., Grinchik, N.N. & Samsonyuk, V.K. On the critical droplet size in an acoustic field. J Eng Phys Thermophys 69, 569–572 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02606170
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02606170