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Foam on troubled water: Capillary induced finite-time arrest of sloshing waves

Viola, Francesco  
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Brun, P-T.
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Dollet, Benjamin
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2016
Physics Of Fluids

Interfacial forces exceed gravitational forces on a scale small relative to the capillary length-two millimeters in the case of an air-water interface-and therefore dominate the physics of sub-millimetric systems. They are of paramount importance for various biological taxa and engineering processes where the motion of a liquid meniscus induces a viscous frictional force that exhibits a sublinear dependence in the meniscus velocity, i.e., a power law with an exponent smaller than one. Interested in the fundamental implications of this dependence, we use a liquid-foam sloshing system as a prototype to exacerbate the effect of sublinear friction on the macroscopic mechanics of multi-phase flows. In contrast to classical theory, we uncover the existence of a finite-time singularity in our system yielding the arrest of the fluid's oscillations. We propose a minimal theoretical framework to capture this effect, thereby amending the paradigmatic damped harmonic oscillator model. Our results suggest that, although often not considered at the macroscale, sublinear capillary forces govern the friction at liquid-solid and liquid-liquid interfaces. Published by AIP Publishing.

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DOI
10.1063/1.4961260
Web of Science ID

WOS:000384878900001

Author(s)
Viola, Francesco  
Brun, P-T.
Dollet, Benjamin
Gallaire, Francois  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Amer Inst Physics

Published in
Physics Of Fluids
Volume

28

Issue

9

Article Number

091701

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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LFMI  
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November 21, 2016
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