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Rheology of draining steady-state foams

Raenell Soller and Stephan A. Koehler*

  • Department of Physics, WPI, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609, USA

  • *sak@wpi.edu
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Phys. Rev. E 80, 021504 – Published 20 August, 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021504

Abstract

Aqueous foams continuously age due to fluid drainage and bubble coarsening, which makes it difficult to perform steady-state rheological measurements. Consequently we have developed the foam drainage rheology technique, where perfusion counteracts fluid drainage and bubble replenishment counteracts bubble coarsening during measurement of the shear stresses by a rheometer. We evaluate published power-law and Herschel-Bulkley models and find that parameters derived from emulsion experiments cannot describe our results. We propose a hybrid model, which combines our earlier film-shearing model, where the film thickness depends on liquid volume fraction, with a Herschel-Bulkley shear-rate dependence.

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Phys. Rev. E 80, 021504– Published 20 August, 2009
  • Received 27 September 2008

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