Flow of foam past an elliptical obstacle

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2006-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601100v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, resubmitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

To investigate the link between discrete, small-scale and continuous, large scale mechanical properties of a foam, we observe its two-dimensional flow in a channel, around an elliptical obstacle. We measure the drag, lift and torque acting on the ellipse {\it versus} the angle between its major axis and the flow direction. The drag increases with the spanwise dimension, in marked contrast with a square obstacle. The lift passes through a smooth extremum at an angle close to, but smaller than 45$^\circ$. The torque peaks at a significantly smaller angle, 26$^\circ$. No existing model can reproduce the observed viscous, elastic, plastic behavior. We propose a microscopic visco-elasto-plastic model which agrees qualitatively with the data.

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