Study on the breakup lengths of free round liquid jets

An experi ment was conducted to measure the breakup lengths of water jets with a high-speed video camera for Weber numbers from0 to about 1.1×10³.The initial jet diameters are changed from0.3 mmto 1. 0 mm.The results indicate that at lowjet velocity the breakup lengths of the jets are increased linearly from 0 to a maxi mumvalue.At the Weber number about 20 the breakup length of the jet reaches its maxi mum value for different initial jet diameter.Acomputation based onthe dispersion equationis conducted to study the relationship between the growth rate of the jet surface wave and the maxi mumbreakup length.The computations showthat the maxi mumgrowth rate for the axisymmetric surface wave has a turning point at Weber number about 20, and that agrees well with the experi ments.