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Equilibrium shape and stability of a charged drop in an air flow under an electric field

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The pressure balance on the surface of a charged liquid drop moving along a uniform electrostatic field is analyzed. The liquid is assumed to be nonviscous and incompressible. In the approximation linear in deformation amplitude, the equilibrium shape of the drop as a function of the charge, field strength, and velocity of travel can be both a prolate and an oblate spheroid. Critical conditions for the surface instability of such a drop are obtained analytically in the form of a relationship between the charge, field strength, and velocity of travel. An instability criterion is found by extrapolating to large Reynolds numbers. This makes it possible to fit the earlier model of a corona-initiated lightning in the vicinity of large charged water drops or hailstones to the charges of the drops, field strengths, and velocities of travel (relative to the medium) typical of thunderclouds.

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Translated from Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 72, No. 7, 2002, pp. 41–47.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Grigor’ev.

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Grigor’ev, A.I. Equilibrium shape and stability of a charged drop in an air flow under an electric field. Tech. Phys. 47, 834–840 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1495043

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