Table 1.

Break-up mechanisms in shear flow related to viscosity ratio (p) after the Ca_crit is reached.

Viscosity Ratio (p)	Break-up Mechanism	Description
Much lower 0.1	Tip streaming	The break-up occurs at the tip of the deformed droplet and generally produce very fine droplets
0.1 < p < 1	Necking	The deformed droplet breaks up into two daughter droplets.
	End pinching	The deformation produces a dumbbell shape, after which the break-up occurs in the two droplets formed at the ends.
1 < p < 3.8	Rayleigh break-up	Interfacial instabilities produce disturbances that will break up the fibril into a line of droplets.
p > 3.8	No break-up	The break-up of the droplet under shear is not possible.