Oscillatory incompressible fluid flow in a tapered tube with a free surface in an inkjet print head

Dong Youn Shin, Paul Grassia, Brian Derby

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    Abstract

    Oscillatory incompressible fluid flow with a free surface occurs in an inkjet print head. Due to complex physical fluid behavior, numerical simulations have been a common approach to characterize the pressure and velocity development in time and space. However, the cost of a numerical approach is high in terms of computational time such that approximate analytic approaches have been developed. In this paper, an approximate analytic solution for a tapered nozzle section is described with a proper downstream boundary condition and the physical behavior of the meniscus deformation is modeled with a simple "window" theory. Copyright © 2005 by ASME.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)98-109
    Number of pages11
    JournalJournal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME
    Volume127
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 2005

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