Ordinary foams such as the head of a glass of beer and more exotic ones such as solid metallic foams raise many questions for the physicist and have attracted a substantial research community in recent years.
The present book describes the results of extensive experiments, computer
simulations, and theories in an authoritative yet informal style, making ample use of illustrations and photographs. As an introduction to the whole field of the physics of foams it puts a strong emphasis on liquids while also including solid foams. Simple, idealized models are adopted and their
consequences explored. Specific topics include: structure, drainage, rheology, conductivity, and coarsening. A minimum of mathematics is used. Theory and experiment are described together at every stage. A guide to further reading is provided through carefully selected references.
This is
a complete and coherent introduction to the subject which no other modern text currently offers.
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Local equilibrium rules
3. Foam structure
4. Making foams
5. Imaging and probing foam structure
6. Simulation and modelling
7. Coarsening
8. Rheology
9. Electrical conduction in a foam
10. Equilibrium under gravity
11.
Drainage
12. Foam collapse
13. Ordered foams
14. Some applications of liquid foams
15. Some analogous physical systems
16. Solid foams
17. Some natural foams
18. Envoi
Appendices
A. The shape of single soap films and bubbles
B. The Theorem of
Lamarle
C. Bubble Clusters
D. The decoration theorum
E. The conductivity formula of Lemlich
F. The drainage equation
G. Phyllotaxis
H. Simulation of liquid foams
I. Bibliography
Appendices
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Denis Weaire is in the Physics Department, Trinity College, Dublin. Stefan Hutzler is in the Physics Department, Trinity College, Dublin.
