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Jet Breakup

A non-cylindrical stream falling through a slit nozzle exhibits the Plateau-Rayleigh instability, which drives a falling jet of fluid to break into droplets due to surface tension. The fingers formed off the falling stream may be a form of Rayleigh-Taylor instability. #

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