Korteweg-de Vries solitons on electrified liquid jets.

The propagation of axisymmetric waves on the surface of a liquid jet under the action of a radial electric field is considered. The jet is assumed to be inviscid and perfectly conducting, and a field is set up by placing the jet concentrically inside a perfectly cylindrical tube whose wall is maintained at a constant potential. A nontrivial interaction arises between the hydrodynamics and the electric field in the annulus, resulting in the formation of electrocapillary waves.

Electrostatic suppression of the "coffee stain effect".

The dynamics of a slender, evaporating, particle-laden droplet under the effect of electric fields are examined. Lubrication theory is used to reduce the governing equations to a coupled system of evolution equations for the interfacial position and the local, depth-averaged particle concentration. The model incorporates the effects of capillarity, viscous stress, Marangoni stress, elecrostatically induced Maxwell stress, van der Waals forces, concentration-dependent rheology, and evaporation.

Gravity capillary waves in fluid layers under normal electric fields.

We study the formation and dynamics of interfacial waves on a perfect dielectric ideal fluid layer of finite depth, wetting a solid wall, when the region above the fluid is hydrodynamically passive but has constant permittivity, for example, air. The wall is held at a constant electric potential and a second electrode having a different potential is placed parallel to the wall and infinitely far from it. In the unperturbed state the interface is flat and the normal horizontally uniform electric field is piecewise constant in the liquid and air.