Universal laws describing capillary disintegration of a compressible heat-conducting viscous liquid jet with arbitrary shear and dilational rheology

The laws of energy and momentum conservation were formulated for a jet of a n arbitrary liquid during its capillary disintegration. These laws yield si mple universal (independent of the jet diameter and liquid properties) equa tions that describe the decrease in the jet velocity (the self-retardation effect) and in its internal energy during disintegration as functions of th e initial velocity. The Bernoulli equation for steady-state flow of an idea l liquid was generalized for the disintegration of a real liquid jet.