Structure-dependent mobility of a dry aqueous foam flowing along two parallel channels

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Jones, S A ^a   Dollet, B ^a   Meheust Y ^b   Cox, S J ^c   Cantat, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO; STAIRS;

FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; PARALLEL CHANNEL; STRUCTURE DEPENDENT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL MODELING; VELOCITY RATIO; VISCOUS DISSIPATION; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84880124955     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4811178     Document Type: Article

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