Slow viscoelastic relaxation and aging in aqueous foam

Details Slow viscoelastic relaxation and aging in aqueous foam Slow viscoelastic relaxation and aging in aqueous foam

2005-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512100v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

7 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2005-10546-7

Like emulsions, pastes and many other forms of soft condensed matter, aqueous foams present slow mechanical relaxations when subjected to a stress too small to induce any plastic flow. To identify the physical origin of this viscoelastic behaviour, we have simulated how dry disordered coarsening 2D foams respond to a small applied stress. We show that the mechanism of long time relaxation is driven by coarsening induced rearrangements of small bubble clusters. These findings are in full agreement with a scaling law previously derived from experimental creep data for 3D foams. Moreover, we find that the temporal statistics of coarsening induced bubble rearrangements are described by a Poisson process.

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