title: Exact solutions for equilibrium configurations of charged conducting liquid jets.
abstract: A wide class of exact solutions is obtained for the problem of finding the equilibrium configurations of charged jets of a conducting liquid; these configurations correspond to the finite-amplitude azimuthal deformations of the surface of a round jet. A critical value of the linear electric charge density is determined, for which the jet surface becomes self-intersecting, and the jet splits into two. It exceeds the density value required for the excitation of the linear azimuthal instability of the round jet. Hence, there exists a range of linear charge-density values, where our solutions may be stable with respect to small azimuthal perturbations.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 106 Amundsen Street, 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russia. nick@ami.uran.ru
authors.forename: Nikolay M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Zubarev
authors.forename: Olga V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Zubareva