Videos from simulations of flowing foams generated using Brakke's Surface
Evolver and the Viscous Froth Model,
and from experiments performed by Sian Jones on flow through a
constriction.
These help us to do research on foams.
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Quasistatic coarsening, that is, gas diffusion between bubbles due
to pressure differences, of a 2D foam confined within a semicircular
container, with two solid circular inclusions:
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Coarsening, that is, gas diffusion between bubbles due to pressure differences, of a periodic 2D foam with viscous drag on the
films:
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Quasi-static Boundary-driven cyclic shear flow of a polydisperse
foam:
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Simple shear of a periodic monodisperse 2D foam
with viscous drag:
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Quasi-static pressure-driven flow of a polydisperse 2D foam in a
channel with partial slip at the walls:
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Quasi-static simple shear of a periodic 3D foam:
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Quasi-static flow of a bidisperse 2D foam in an annular
Couette cell:
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Quasi-static flow of a polydisperse 2D foam around a
smoothed, right-angled corner:
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Quasi-static flow of monodisperse 2D foam through a 4:1:4
contraction:
You can find experimental videos for a constriction flow of a foam in a Hele-Shaw cell, generated by Sian Jones, here: slow and fast |
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Quasi-static flow of a monodisperse 2D foam through a
cross-slot:
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Quasi-static simple shear of a polydisperse 2D foam with liquid
fraction
of 3%:
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Quasi-static Stokes flow of a sphere through a 3D cylinder of monodisperse foam:
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Quasi-static Stokes flow of a foams past several circular
discs in a channel:
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Quasi-static Stokes flow of a monodisperse 2D foam past a circular
disc in a channel:
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Quasi-static Stokes flow of a monodisperse 2D foam
past an off-centre circular disc in a channel: ![]() |
Quasi-static uniaxial shear
of a bidisperse 2D foam in a rectangular box:
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Extension of a monodisperse 2D foam between parallel walls, with
defects coloured:
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Collapse of a periodic 2D foam, with films destroyed at
random:
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Viscous flow of bubbles in a channel with a 180 degree bend at
high velocity:![]() The datafile describing the geometry is available here. |
Viscous flow of bubbles in a channel with a 180 degree bend at
low velocity:
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