Statistics and topological changes in 2D foam from the dry to the wet limit
| Autor: | Denis Weaire, F. Bolton, F. F. Dunne, Stefan Hutzler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Liquid fraction
Materials science Nanotechnology Fraction (chemistry) 02 engineering and technology Mechanics Function (mathematics) 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Exponential function Distribution (mathematics) 0103 physical sciences Limit (mathematics) 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Contact number Excess energy |
| Zdroj: | Philosophical Magazine. 97:1768-1781 |
| ISSN: | 1478-6443 1478-6435 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14786435.2017.1312585 |
| Popis: | The software PLAT, for the simulation of two-dimensional foams, has never been fully exploited, particularly in the wet limit, where it has difficulty converging. Present computer resources have enabled us to circumvent this problem. Using a data-set of 600,000 simulations, we are able to compute the polydisperse foam excess energy all the way from the dry to the wet limit. We also present data and a simple empirical function for the number distribution of n-sided bubbles for all values of the average contact number Z. Furthermore we show that, starting from a dry foam, incremental increases in liquid fraction bring with them a steadily increasing fraction f of bubbles involved in rearrangements. The size distribution of these rearrangements is found to be exponential, , where the mean, , increases in the wet limit. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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