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The collapse of a catenoidal soap film when the rings supporting it are moved beyond a critical separation is a classic problem in interface motion in which there is a balance between surface tension and the inertia of the surrounding air,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-26 Christophe Raufaste , Simon Cox , Raymond E. Goldstein , Adriana I. Pesci

Surface bubbles are present in many industrial processes and in nature, as well as in CO$_2$ beverage. They have motivated many theoretical, numerical and experimental works. This paper presents the current knowledge on the physics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-16 Jonas Miguet , Florence Rouyer , Emmanuelle Rio

We consider the lifetime of rectangular vertical soap films and we explore the influence of relative humidity and both dimensions on the stability of large soap films, reaching heights of up to 1.2 m. Using an automated rupture detection…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-13 Marina Pasquet , François Boulogne , Frédéric Restagno , Emmanuelle Rio

Interfacial deformation under electric fields is a common phenomenon in many industrial processes. Particularly, we are interested in the dynamics of sessile soap bubbles in a parallel-plate electric field which exhibits a stable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Hongsik Kim , Sunghwan Jung

Using high-speed video, we have studied air bubbles detaching from an underwater nozzle. As a bubble distorts, it forms a thin neck which develops a singular shape as it pinches off. As in other singularities, the minimum neck radius scales…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Nathan C. Keim , Peder Moller , Wendy W. Zhang , Sidney R. Nagel

Dynamic buckling may occur when a load is rapidly applied to, or removed from, an elastic object at rest. In contrast to its static counterpart, dynamic buckling offers a wide range of accessible patterns depending on the parameters of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Finn Box , Ousmane Kodio , Doireann O'Kiely , Vincent Cantelli , Alain Goriely , Dominic Vella

When a bubble of air rises to the top of a highly viscous liquid, it forms a dome-shaped protuberance on the free surface. Unlike a soap bubble, it bursts so slowly as to collapse under its own weight simultaneously, and folds into a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Rava da Silveira , Sahraoui Chaieb , L. Mahadevan

The Euler--Plateau problem, proposed by \cite{gm}, concerns a soap film spanning a flexible loop. The shapes of the film and the loop are determined by the interactions between the two components. In the present work, the Euler--Plateau…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-15 Yi-chao Chen , Eliot Fried

The collapse of a gas or vapour bubble near a non-porous boundary is directed at the boundary due to the asymmetry induced by the nearby boundary. High surface pressure and shear stress from this collapse can damage, or clean, the surface.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-10 Elijah D. Andrews , David Fernández Rivas , Ivo R. Peters

Recent advances have demonstrated that evaporation can play a significant role on soap film stability, which is a key concern in many industrial areas but also for children playing with bubbles. Thus, evaporation leads to a film thinning…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-28 François Boulogne , Frédéric Restagno , Emmanuelle Rio

The prediction of the lifetime of surface bubbles necessitates a better understanding of the thinning dynamics of the bubble cap. In 1959, Mysel \textit{et al.} \cite{mysels1959soap}, proposed that \textit{marginal regeneration} i.e. the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-13 Jonas Miguet , Marina Pasquet , Florence Rouyer , Yuan Fang , Emmanuelle Rio

The present study aims to investigate the motion of buoyant rings in vertical soap films. Thickness differences and related bi-dimensional densities are considered as the motor leading to bi-dimensional buoyancy. We show how this effect can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-02 N. Adami , H. Caps

Cavitation in tubes is a common occurrence in nature and engineering applications. Previous studies of cavitation bubble dynamics mainly consider bubbles in stagnant-water tubes, but the dynamics of cavitation bubbles in tubes with flow is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-05 Nian Wang , Odumuyiwa A. Odumosu , Tianyou Wang , Zhizhao Che

When a fluid is constrained to a fixed, finite volume, the conditions for liquid-vapor equilibrium are different from the infinite volume or constant pressure cases. There is even a range of densities for which no bubble can form, and the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Frédéric Caupin

Enhancing the efficiency of water electrolysis, which can be severely impacted by the nucleation and growth of bubbles, is key in the energy transition. In this combined experimental and numerical study, in-situ bubble evolution and…

Soap films at equilibrium are modeled, rather than as surfaces, as regions of small total volume through the introduction of a capillarity problem with a homotopic spanning condition. This point of view introduces a length scale in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-28 Darren King , Francesco Maggi , Salvatore Stuvard

We consider a spherical particle levitating above a liquid bath owing to the Leidenfrost effect, where the vapour of either the bath or sphere forms an insulating film whose pressure supports the sphere's weight. Starting from a reduced…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-07 Rodolfo Brandão , Ory Schnitzer

Bubble growth, departure and sliding in low-pressure flow boiling has received considerable attention in the past. However, most applications of boiling heat transfer rely on high-pressure flow boiling, for which very little is known, as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-29 Artyom Kossolapov , Matthew T. Hughes , Bren Phillips , Matteo Bucci

In this fluid dynamics video, we compare the deformation of two flexible particles as they propagate through a sudden constriction of a liquid filled channel under constant-flux flow: a gas bubble, and a capsule formed by encapsulating a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-11 Geoffrey Dawson , Anne Juel

We consider the variational foam model, where the goal is to minimize the total surface area of a collection of bubbles subject to the constraint that the volume of each bubble is prescribed. We apply sharp interface methods to develop an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Dong Wang , Andrej Cherkaev , Braxton Osting