Ligament-type liquid disintegration by a spinning wheel

In this paper, liquid disintegration by a spinning wheel was investigated experimentally. The mechanism of ligament formation on a spinning wheel was studied using photographs taken by a high-speed camera. Three different liquids with Newtonian properties were used at various flow rates and the wheel rotational speed was varied in a wide range. The atomization process was found to be significantly different from the spinning disc and cups...