Catastrophic breakup regime

The breakup parameter, Kbu, in the bag breakup and the stripping breakup regime is proportional to the characteristic breakup frequencies suggested by [5]. The characteristic breakup frequency for the catastrophic breakup regime is derived from the study of the RT instability by Bellman and Pennington [21] as reported by Patterson and Reitz [11]. The constant k = 0.05 has been determined such that the drop radii match the phase Doppler measurements of Schneider [22], whereas the values for the constants ki and k are chosen such that Kbu is continuous at the regime-dividing Weber numbers, Web,s and Wcg c-... 

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