The breakup of a single water jet by a transverse shock was studied experi¬mentally in a 2.7- by 2.7-inch shock tube equipped with a variable-length high-pressure section. High-speed backlighted photographs were analyzed to obtain breakup time and liquid deformation.nBreakup time decreased regularly with an increase in gas velocity and in-creased with jet radius. The extent of deformation was a linear function of the ratio of Weber number to the square root of Reynolds number based on initial jet radius.nA theoretical model was developed based on stripping from a liquid-phase boundary layer, and an explicit function for breakup time resulted. The calcu¬lated breakup times were found to be in fair agreement with the measured values.
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