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Volume 99, Number 4, August 2012
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| Article Number | 48003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/99/48003 | |
| Published online | 24 August 2012 | |
Experimental link of coarsening rate and volume distribution in dry foam
1 IPR UMR 6251, Université Rennes I - F-35042 Rennes Cedex, France, EU
2 “Polarité, Division et Morphogenèse”, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biologie du Développement, Institut Curie 26 rue d'Ulm, F-75248 Paris Cedex 05, France, EU
3 Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS UMR 7057 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France, EU
(a) isabelle.cantat@univ-rennes1.fr
Received: 10 May 2012
Accepted: 17 July 2012
In dry foam, we investigate the link between coarsening rate and bubble distribution. Revisiting Mullins' predictions (Mullins W. W., J. Appl. Phys., 59 (1986) 1341), we predict, without any phenomenological assumption, that the volume distribution behaves as v(2−D)/D (where D is the dimension of space) in the limit of small volumes. This is in agreement with recent experimental results. In the self-similar growth regime, we validate experimentally a relation between the bubbles' growth rates and their size distribution. In 2D, we discuss the relation between the areas distribution and the correlation between edge numbers and bubble area.
PACS: 82.70.Rr – Aerosols and foams / 83.80.Iz – Emulsions and foams
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