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Growth of aqueous foam on flexible membranes

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-06-02 v1

Abstract

In this paper, I study the coarsening dynamics of two-dimensional dry foam sandwiched by deformable membranes. The time-varying deformation of the confining membranes gives rise to a significant alteration in the evolution of polygonal cells of bubbles when compared to the case of rigid membranes. This alteration is attributed to the correlation between the rate of inter-cell gas transfer and temporal fluctuation in surface curvature within a cell domain. The existing material constants are referred to understand the utility of the correlation effect toward the artificial control of the coarsening dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.0906.0085,
  title  = {Growth of aqueous foam on flexible membranes},
  author = {Hiroyuki Shima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0085},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure