Rayleigh's method applied to a conducting liquid drop in the presence of a point charge
Abstract
The method that Rayleigh formulated in 1879 is used to determine the effect of a point charge on the natural frequencies of a charged drop. Explicit expressions are derived for the resonant frequencies and the deformation of the charged drop. The results are expressed in terms of sums over particular types of Clebsch-Gordon coefficients and more complicated sums. Further work is necessary before practical application of the results can be made.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- January 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983STIN...8324776M
- Keywords:
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- Drops (Liquids);
- Electric Charge;
- Electric Fields;
- Fluid Flow;
- Rayleigh Waves;
- Deformation;
- Electrical Resistivity;
- Frequencies;
- Resonance;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering