Temporal instability of the liquid film formed by a liquid jet impinging on a curved cylindrical wall.

The linear temporal instability of the confined curved liquid film formed by a liquid jet impinging on a curved wall has been investigated. The corresponding dispersion relation between the non-dimensional wave growth rate and wave number was derived. The dispersion relation further involves the influences of the local radius of curvature and the azimuthal angle of the liquid film. The dispersion relation could be verified with previous researches, and the optimal wavelength has been verified with experiments. Temporal stability analysis shows that the effects of gas-to-liquid velocity ratio, gas-to-liquid density ratio, the relative thickness of the liquid phase to the gas phase, and azimuthal wave number are similar to previous researches, but the unstable ranges are smaller than that in previous researches. This paper further studied the effects of the local radius of curvature and azimuthal angle of the liquid film. As the local radius of curvature decreases, the instability of confined curved films increases for the given conditions. And both the growth rate and instability range increase with the increase of the azimuthal angle. The solutions would be helpful to understand the atomization process of the liquid film formed by a liquid jet impinging on a curved wall. • The dispersion relation involves the influences of the local radius of curvature and azimuthal angle of the film. • The dispersion relation has been verified with experiments. • As the local radius of curvature decreases, the instability of films increases. • Both the growth rate and instability range increase with the increase of the azimuthal angle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]