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A linear electrohydrodynamic instability analysis is presented for an inviscid dielectric liquid sheet emanated into an inviscid dielectric gas medium in the presence of a horizontal electric field. The influence of Weber number, gas-to-liquid density ratio, and the applied electric field on the evolution of two-, and three-dimensional disturbances of symmetrical and antisymmetrical types is studied. It is found, for antisymmetrical waves, that two-dimensional disturbances always prevail over three-dimensional disturbances, regardless of Weber number or gas-to-liquid density ratio values, especially for long waves; while for short waves, both two- and three-dimensional disturbances grow at approximately the same rate. It is also found, for symmetrical waves, that two-dimensional disturbances always dominate the instability process at low Weber number, and when the Weber number is large, symmetrical three-dimensional disturbances become more unstable than two-dimensional ones for long waves. The effect of increasing the gas-to-liquid density ratio is to promote the dominance of long three-dimensional symmetrical waves over their two-dimensional counterpart. Finally, the equilibrium Weber number at which the growth rates of two- and three-dimensional modes are equal is discussed for both symmetrical- and antisymmetrical-disturbances cases.-1
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El-Sayed, M.F. Three-dimensional electrohydrodynamic temporal instability of a moving dielectric liquid sheet emanated into a gas medium. Eur. Phys. J. E 15, 443–455 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2004-10076-2
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