Foam Drainage

Foam Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 27-58

  Koehler, Stephan A ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foam drainage equation; Foam drainage or syneresis, and Ostwald ripening; Foam drainage theories, structure modified by flow, liquid gas interface flow; Foam drainage, fluid flow between compressed bubbles; Forced drainage, foam perfused with liquid fraction; Metastable dispersions of gas in liquid; Mobile interfaces and neglecting nodes; Multifaceted process, length scales in bulk foams; Role of surfactant on interfacial stress, remaining unanswered; Surfactants, role of interfacial mobility on drainage dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872258054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119954620.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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