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Teardrop shapes for small bubbles and drops moving through Newtonian liquids

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IN each of the previous observations1–11 of bubbles and drops with pointed tails the continuous liquid has had non-Newtonian characteristics. For Newtonian liquids, the shapes of drops and bubbles have been generally reported to pass smoothly from spherical to oblate ellipsoidal with increasing volume. Here we report observations of teardrop shapes for bubbles and drops in Newtonian liquids over a narrow range of sizes.

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WAIREGI, T., GRACE, J. Teardrop shapes for small bubbles and drops moving through Newtonian liquids. Nature 248, 327–328 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248327a0

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