Ordered polyhedral foams in tubes with circular, triangular and square cross-section

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 382, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 24-31

  Tobin, S T ^a   Barry, J D ^a   Meagher, A J ^a   Bulfin, B ^a   O'Rathaille, C E ^a   Hutzler, S ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Foam modelling; Foam structure; Ordered structure

Indexed keywords

SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

BUBBLE DIAMETER; CYLINDRICAL TUBES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOAM STRUCTURE; ORDERED FOAMS; ORDERED STRUCTURES; SIMULATION RESULT; SOAP BUBBLES; SQUARE CROSS-SECTION; SURFACE ENERGIES; SURFACE EVOLVER; SURFACE EVOLVER SOFTWARE; TRIANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

SOAP;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FOAM; FOAMING; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION; TUBE FLOW;

EID: 79956028026     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.11.024     Document Type: Article

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