Kelvin's foam structure: A commentary

Philosophical Magazine Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-102

  Weaire, D ^a,b  

^a National Centre of Scientific Research   (France)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KELVIN PROBLEM; SURFACE AREA;

FOAMS;

EID: 38949120841     PISSN: 09500839     EISSN: 13623036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500830701697498     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. W. Thomson, Phil. Mag. 24 503 (1887).
2. B. Hunt, The Maxwellians (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1991).
3. F. Wilczek, Phys. Today 52 11 (1999).
4. E.T. Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity (Longmans, Green, London, 1910).
5. H.M. Princen and P. Levinson, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 120 172 (1987).
6. D.B. Wilson, The Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990).
7. D. Weaire (Editor), The Kelvin Problem (Taylor & Francis, London, 1996).
8. T. Aste and D. Weaire, The Pursuit of Perfect Packing, second edn. (Taylor & Francis, London, 2008).
9. J.A.F. Plateau, Statique Expérimentale et Théorique des Liquides soumis aux seules Forces Moléculaires (Gauthier-Vilars, Paris, 1873).
10. S.P. Thompson, The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (Macmillan, London, 1910).
11. Lord Kelvin, The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1894).
12. K. Brakke, Expl. Math. 1 141 (1992).
13. D. Weaire and R. Phelan, Phil. Mag. Lett. 70 345 (1994).
14. A. van der Net, W. Drenckhan, D. Weaire, et al., Soft Matter 2 129 (2006).
15. A. van der Net, G.W. Delaney, W. Drenckhan, et al., Colloids Surf. A 309 117 (2007).
16. R. Hoehler, Y.Y. Cheung Sang, E. Lorenceau, et al., to be published (2007).
17. D. Weaire and S. Hutzler, The Physics of Foams (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999).
18. R. Huff, J. Geometrical Analysis 15 443 (2005).
19. D.A. Reinelt and A.M. Kraynik, J. Fluid Mech. 311 327 (1996).
20. D. Levine and G.S. Grest, Phil. Mag. Lett. 74 303 (1996).
21. P. Ball, Nature 448 256 (2007).