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Experimental growth law for bubbles in a "wet" 3D liquid foam

Soft Condensed Matter 2016-08-14 v1

Abstract

We used X-ray tomography to characterize the geometry of all bubbles in a liquid foam of average liquid fraction ϕl17\phi_l\approx 17 % and to follow their evolution, measuring the normalized growth rate G=V1/3dVdt\mathcal{G}=V^{-{1/3}}\frac{dV} {dt} for 7000 bubbles. While G\mathcal{G} does not depend only on the number of faces of a bubble, its average over ff-faced bubbles scales as Gfff0G_f\sim f-f_0 for large ffs at all times. We discuss the dispersion of G\mathcal{G} and the influence of VV on G\mathcal{G}.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0702685,
  title  = {Experimental growth law for bubbles in a "wet" 3D liquid foam},
  author = {Jérôme Lambert and Rajmund Mokso and Isabelle Cantat and Peter Cloetens and Renaud Delannay and James A. Glazier and François Graner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0702685},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, submitted to PRL