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

We used x-ray tomography to characterize the geometry of all bubbles in a liquid foam of average liquid fraction phi(l) approximately 17% and to follow their evolution, measuring the normalized growth rate G=V(-1/3) dV/dt for 7000 bubbles. While G does not depend only on the number of faces of a bubble, its average over f-faced bubbles scales as G(f) approximately f - f(0) for large f's at all times. We discuss the dispersion of G and the influence of V and phi(l) on G.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2007-02-28

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.058304arXiv cond-mat/0702685PMID 17930803
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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