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Marginal regeneration-induced drainage of surface bubbles

Jonas Miguet1,*, Marina Pasquet2,*, Florence Rouyer3, Yuan Fang4, and Emmanuelle Rio2

  • 1TIPs, Université libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
  • 2Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91405, France
  • 3Navier, Univ Gustave Eiffel, Ecole des Ponts, CNRS UMR 8205, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée, France
  • 4PepsiCo Global R&D, Valhalla, New York 10595, United States

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, L101601 – Published 6 October, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.L101601

Abstract

The prediction of the lifetime of surface bubbles necessitates a better understanding of the thinning dynamics of the bubble cap. In 1959, Mysels et al. [Soap Films: Studies of Their Thinning and a Bibliography (Pergamon, New York, 1959)], proposed that marginal regeneration, i.e., the rise of patches thinner than the film should be taken into account to describe the film drainage. Nevertheless, an accurate description of these buoyant patches and of their dynamics as well as a quantification of their contribution to the thinning dynamics is still lacking. In this paper, we visualize the patches, and show that their rising velocities and sizes are in good agreement with models respectively based on the balance of gravitational and surface viscous forces and on a Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability. Our results suggest that, in an environment saturated in humidity, the drainage induced by their dynamics correctly describes the film drainage at the apex of the bubble within the experimental error bars. We conclude that the film thinning of soap bubbles is indeed controlled, to a large extent, by marginal regeneration in the absence of evaporation.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, L101601– Published 6 October, 2021
  • Received 23 March 2021
  • Accepted 15 September 2021
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