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Understanding foams and foaming

D. D. Joseph

Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (USA)

(May 1997)

Abstract

Foams are common, complex, and not well understood. Most of the common foams are a two-phase medium of gas and liquid with a particular structure consisting of gas pockets trapped in a network of thin liquid films and Plateau borders.