A note on Taylor’s electrohydrodynamic theory

The induced motion and deformation of a conducting drop suspended in another conducting fluid and subjected to an electric field are studied, paying particular attention to the boundary conditions to be satisfied at the surface of the deformed drop. By satisfying these conditions more accurately than was done in previous work an increase in drop deformation is found which partly explains the discrepancy between theory and experiment. However, the smallness of an expansion parameter ω in practice precludes any great reduction in the discrepancy.