Flows in soap films
Isabelle CANTAT
Université de Rennes
The thinning of the liquid films separating bubbles in a foam or in a bubbly liquid controls the coalescence process and the foam stability, and is highly relevant in many industrial processes. The spatiotemporal evolution of the film thickness is governed by nonlinear equations, whose solutions are still mostly unknown. In this talk we will discuss a few examples of flows in the plane of a horizontal foam film, driven by tiny capillary forces. These original flows will allow us to revisit the old problem of the `marginal regeneration', a peculiar instability occurring between a flat film and a meniscus, which controls the film drainage.
IMAGES
Organisation topologique d'un attracteur spirale (plus de détails...)
CONFÉRENCES
Auto-organisation en physique et en biologie, morphogenèse, ondes-particules, turbulence, physique non linéaire, Colloque International en mémoire d’Yves Couder à l'ENS et UPCité, 4 Juin 2024
Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 24 Juin 2024
Physics of Wave Turbulence and beyond: Celebrating the 60th birthday of Sergey Nazarenko., Les Houches, 2 Septembre 2024