eprintid: 4842 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 1903 dir: disk0/00/00/48/42 datestamp: 2010-11-05 12:04:05 lastmod: 2017-01-17 12:05:37 status_changed: 2017-01-17 12:05:37 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Laverón Simavilla, Ana creators_name: Perales Perales, José Manuel title: Equilibrium Shapes of Non-axisymmetric Liquid Bridges of Arbitrary Volume in Gravitational Fields and their Potential Energy ispublished: pub subjects: fisica abstract: Bifurcation diagrams of nonaxisymmetric liquid bridges subject to a lateral gravitational force and to both lateral and axial gravitational forces are found by solving the Young–Laplace equation for the interface by a finite difference method. The potential energy of the equilibrium shapes is also calculated. The results obtained show that the slenderness of the bridge determines whether the breaking of the liquid bridge subject to a lateral gravitational force leads to equal or unequal drops. The stability limits calculated are compared with the ones obtained using asymptotic techniques around the cylinder, the agreement being extremely good for a wide range of the parameters. date: 1995-06 date_type: published publisher: American Institute of Physics official_url: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.868578 id_number: 10.1063/1.868578 full_text_status: public publication: Physics of Fluids volume: 7 number: 6 pagerange: 1204-1213 institution: E_Aeronautica department: Vehiculos_Aeroespaciales refereed: TRUE issn: 1070-6631 rights: by-nc-nd citation: Laverón Simavilla, Ana and Perales Perales, José Manuel (1995). Equilibrium Shapes of Non-axisymmetric Liquid Bridges of Arbitrary Volume in Gravitational Fields and their Potential Energy. "Physics of Fluids", v. 7 (n. 6); pp. 1204-1213. ISSN 1070-6631. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868578 . document_url: https://oa.upm.es/4842/1/Perales_22.pdf