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Abstract(s)
• In confined foams there exist wall Plateau borders (PBs), or menisci, where the films meet the confining substrates.
• What is the shape of a PB of a given size on a surface of a given wettability (i.e., contact angle θc)? Can that surface support a foam?
• This is important for firefighting foams, containers for foamy foodstuffs, etc
• We solve the Young-Laplace equation with gravity for a planar film spanning
a gap between two horizontal, flat substrates, to predict the shape of the PBs.
• Validate results by comparing with Surface Evolver and experimental data
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Keywords
Foam-phobic
Citation
TEIXEIRA, Miguel [et al] – When is a surface foam-phobic?. In 10th Liquid Matter Conference, Ljubljana Slovenia, 2017.