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A Generalized View of Foam Drainage: Experiment and Theory
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In this paper, a new experimental method is presented using fluorescein dye to determine the spatial and temporal variations of the liquid volume fraction in aqueous foams This method was used for quantitative studies of liquid redistribution (drainage) in three types of experiments: forced, free, and pulsed drainage Characteristic quantities, such as the drainage velocity, show power-law dependences on experimental parameters that are inconsistent with traditional foam drainage models based on Poiseuille-type flow in the liquid-carrying channels (Plateau borders) of the foam.Abstract:
A new experimental method is presented using fluorescein dye to determine the spatial and temporal variations of the liquid volume fraction in aqueous foams This method is used for quantitative studies of liquid redistribution (drainage) in three types of experiments: forced, free, and pulsed drainage Characteristic quantities, such as the drainage velocity, show power-law dependences on experimental parameters that are inconsistent with traditional foam drainage models based on Poiseuille-type flow in the liquid-carrying channels (Plateau borders) of the foam To obtain a theoretical description, the foam drainage equation is generalized using an energy argument which accounts for viscous dissipation in both the channels and the nodes (or vertices, which are the junctions of four channels) of the liquid network Good agreement with results for all three types of drainage experiments is found when using this new model in the limit where the dissipation is dominated by the nodesread more
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TL;DR: In this paper, a periodic grain consolidation model of porous media is presented, in which the radius of the spheres is allowed to increase past the point of close touching to form a consolidated medium.
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Flow through a plateau border of cellular foam
Dilip Desai,Raghavan Kumar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the situation wherein plateau border walls have velocities, as decided by the surface viscosity of the system, is presented, where the plateau border is idealized as a pipe of equilateral triangular cross-section with vertices of the triangle having zero velocity.
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Dynamics of foam drainage
TL;DR: In this paper, three experimentally accessible configurations are modeled analytically using a one-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equation called the foam drainage equation: free drainage where liquid drains from an initially uniform foam of fixed length, wetting of a dry foam, and pulsed drainage where a finite blob of liquid spreads in an otherwise dry foam.