Couette Flow of Two-Dimensional Foams

Details Couette Flow of Two-Dimensional Foams Couette Flow of Two-Dimensional Foams

2010-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/1001.4723v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 5 figures, revised version

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We experimentally investigate flow of quasi two-dimensional disordered foams in Couette geometries, both for foams squeezed below a top plate and for freely floating foams. With the top-plate, the flows are strongly localized and rate dependent. For the freely floating foams the flow profiles become essentially rate-independent, the local and global rheology do not match, and in particular the foam flows in regions where the stress is below the global yield stress. We attribute this to nonlocal effects and show that the "fluidity" model recently introduced by Goyon {\em et al.} ({\em Nature}, {\bf 454} (2008)) captures the essential features of flow both with and without a top plate.

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