Thu, 10 Feb 2011

16:00 - 17:00
DH 1st floor SR

Dynamics of aqueous foams

Simon Cox
(Aberystwyth)
Abstract

Predicting the dynamics of foams requires input from geometry and both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, among many other fields. I will attempt to give a flavour of this richness by discussing the static structure of a foam and how it allows the derivation of dynamic properties, at least to leading order. The latter includes coarsening due to gas diffusion, liquid drainage under gravity, and the flow of the bubbles themselves.

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