Abstract
Dispersion relations are derived for the capillary oscillations of a charged viscous spheroidal droplet by scalarization within perturbation theory using an expansion in two small parameters, viz., the magnitude of the perturbation of the spheroidal surface as a result of thermal fluctuations and the magnitude of the deviation of the equilibrium spheroidal droplet shape from a spherical shape. It is shown analytically that the motion spectrum of the liquid consists of two components that interact in the linear theory: toroidal vortex motion and poloidal potential motions. A numerical analysis reveals that the instability growth rates of the higher modes of a highly charged droplet increase with enhancement of the degree of spheroidal strain and decrease rapidly as the viscosity of the liquid increases.
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