Foam Rheology

Foam Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 91-120

  Denkov, Nikolai D ^a   Tcholakova, Slavka S ^a   Höhler, Reinhard ^b,c   Cohen Addad, Sylvie ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

Author keywords

Coupling between foam structure and flow; Foam deformation and flow; Foam extrusion, through nozzles and slits; Foam rheology; Foam rheology, challenging scientific problem; Foam rheology, coupling between elastic and viscous effects; Rheological properties, elasticity, plasticity, and viscosity; Shear modulus of particle laden foams; Shear strain solid like to fluid like behaviour, or 'yielding'; Theoretical models, and foam visco elasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886106781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119954620.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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