Flow in Foams and Flowing Foams
COHEN ADDAD ; HOHLER ; PITOIS
Type de document
ARTICLE A COMITE DE LECTURE REPERTORIE DANS BDI (ACL)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
COHEN ADDAD ; HOHLER ; PITOIS
Résumé / Abstract
Aqueous foams are complex fluids composed of gas bubbles tightly packed
in a surfactant solution. Even though they generally consist only of
Newtonian fluids, foam flow obeys nonlinear laws. This can result from
nonaffine deformations of the disordered bubble packing as well as from a
coupling between the surface flow in the surfactant monolayers and the bulk
liquid flow in the films, channels, and nodes. A similar coupling governs
the permeation of liquid through the bubble packing that is observed when
foams drain due to gravity. We review the experimental state of the art as
well as recent models that describe the interplay of the processes at multiple
length scales involved in foam drainage and rheology.
Source
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, pp. 241-267 p.