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Sink flow under a free surface
A container filled with viscous liquid
empties through a hole in the bottom. As the
filling height decreases, the liquid-air
interface forms an increasingly sharp tip.
At some finite distance h between the
tip and the hole the curvature of
the tip diverges like
1/(h-h*)3,
forming a finite cone angle.
As h is decreased beyond h*,
the cone angle vanishes like 1/h2, see:
S. Courrech du Pont, J. Eggers
Sink flow deforms the interface between
a viscous liquid and air into a tip singularity ,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 , 034501 (2006)
movie by S. Courrech du Pont
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