Life of a flapping liquid sheet

By E. Villermaux, C. Clanet. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2002

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Atomization by jet impact (2006, methodology): “The quantitative study of the drop formation process itself was addressed only recently (Clanet & Villermaux 2002; Villermaux & Clanet 2002).”
On spray formation (2004, background): “Studying flapping liquid sheets, Villermaux & Clanet (2002) have proposed that the unsteady motions at the sheet rim confer transient accelerations to the liquid which trigger a Rayleigh–Taylor type of instability, producing indentations of the rim, ligaments, and then drops.”
On the experimental investigation on primary atomization of liquid streams (2008, methodology): “Villermaux and Clanet (2002) found, however, that the minimum liquid Weber number for the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability to develop is a function of the density of the surrounding gas: it decreases when the gas density increases.”
On the collision of laminar jets: fluid chains and fishbones (2004, methodology): “First, the violent shear-induced flapping instabilities (figure 13) of the sheet arising at the highest flow rates have been considered in detail by previous investigators (Dombrowski & Fraser 1954; Mehring & Sirignano 1999; Villermaux & Clanet 2002), and so have only been touched upon in our study.”