A model system for foam fractionation

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 469, Issue 2154, 2013, Pages

  Hutzler, S ^a   Tobin, S T ^a   Meagher, A J ^a   Marguerite, A ^a   Weaire, D ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Analytic solutions; Foam drainage; Fractionation

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; FRACTIONATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYTIC FORMULA; ANALYTIC SOLUTION; FOAM DRAINAGE; FOAM FRACTIONATION; MODEL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; SURFACTANT SOLUTION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84877292343     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0727     Document Type: Article

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