Foam Morphology

Foam Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5-26

  Weaire, Denis ^a   Tobin, Steven T ^a   Meagher, Aaron J ^a   Hutzler, Stefan ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

3D dry and wet foams; Between the two limits in 2D; Foam morphology, geometrical patterns in 2D and 3D; Foam morphology, the basic rules; Foams in industry and everyday life, three dimensional; Laboratory experiments, and two dimensional foams; Ordered 2D foams and discrete microfluidics; Ordered foams, 2D hexagonal honeycomb and disordered foams; Statistics of 3D foams; Two dimensional, modelled using circular arcs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886144217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119954620.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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