automobiles airplanes and ships as well as non vehicular applications such as generators while the present invention is directed to decreasing the size of fuel droplets ejected from a fuel injector those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited to fuel as the fluid but may be used on other fluids as well in order to reduce the viscosity of the fluid and thus the particle size of sprayed droplets for example the technology embodied in the present invention may be used in other applications requiring small spray droplets such as paint sprayers an electric field assisted fuel injection system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is schematically shown in fig1 injection system 100 includes a fuel line 110 through which fuel u201c f u201d flows as shown in fig1 fuel f flows from left upstream side to right downstream side fuel f flows from fuel line 110 to a fuel injector 120 which injects fuel f into a combustion chamber not shown for combustion a downstream mesh 112 is inserted into fuel line 110 an upstream mesh 114 is also inserted into fuel line 110 upstream from downstream mesh 112 meshes 112 114 are electrically insulated from any other metal including fuel line 110 and form a capacitor within fuel line 110 upstream mesh 114 may desirably be located between approximately 0.