We report on recent experimental and theoretical work onthe pinch-off of dilute solutions of flexible polymers. Owing tothestrong extensional hardening of such solutions, pinch-off of aliquid drop is delayed. Instead, long threads of uniformthicknessform, whose radius decreases exponentially in time. We derive arelationship between the thread ra...
Creator:
Eggers, Jens (University of Bristol)
Created:
2009-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.