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Droplet cloud formation upon disintegration of free-falling water ball

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Free fall of an approximately spherical water ball with a volume within 0.1–0.5 l from the state of rest at an altitude of up to ∼5 m was experimentally studied. The deformation of the liquid ball under the action of aerodynamic forces and instabilities leads to its disintegration with the formation of a droplet cloud with rapidly growing dimensions in both longitudinal (vertical) and lateral directions.

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  1. Sarov State Institute of Physics and Technology (Branch of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod oblast, 607186, Russia

    E. E. Meshkov, V. O. Oreshkov & G. M. Yanbaev

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Original Russian Text © E.E. Meshkov, V.O. Oreshkov, G.M. Yanbaev, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 15, pp. 79–86.

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Meshkov, E.E., Oreshkov, V.O. & Yanbaev, G.M. Droplet cloud formation upon disintegration of free-falling water ball. Tech. Phys. Lett. 37, 728–730 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785011080116

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