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Electrohydrodynamics of charged surfaces

A. I. Zhakin

Kursk State Technical University

Abstract: This review presents a methodology for, and basic theoretical and experimental results on, the effect of the electric field on dielectric liquids with free surfaces (plane surfaces, menisci, jets, and drops). The role of the surface conductivity and the finite charge relaxation time in the development of instabilities is highlighted.

PACS: 41.20.Cv, 67.25.-k, 68.03.Hj

Received: November 7, 2011
Revised: February 27, 2012
Accepted: February 28, 2012

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0183.201302c.0153

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2013, 56:2, 141–163

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