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Rheology of Foam Near the Order-Disorder TransitionThe first part of our research results are summarized in the recent journal publication: J. Gregory McDaniel and R. Glynn Holt, 'Measurement of aqueous foam rheology by acoustic levitation', Phys. Rev. E 61, 2204 (2000). This aspect of the work was a combination of experiment and analysis. We built a levitation system capable of acoustically levitating small samples of aqueous foam of arbitrary gas and liquid volume fractions. We then modulated the acoustic field to induce normal mode oscillations of the foam samples. The observables from the experiment were frequency and mode number. For dry (roughly > 70% gas by volume) foams and small deformations, we developed an effective medium, normal-modes analysis which took the frequency and mode number from experiment, and gave us the shear elastic modulus of the foam as a function of Poisson's ratio. The second part of our results may be found in a soon-to-be submitted manuscript 'Dynamics of aqueous foam drops', I.Sh. Akhatov, J.G. McDaniel and R.G. Holt, describing our modeling in the wet foam limit by considering the acoustic problem. This aspect of the research is purely theoretical. Beginning from a mass-conserving mixture law, the fully nonlinear equations of motion for a wet (roughly < 10% gas by volume) foam drop of initially spherical shape were derived. The frequencies for normal mode oscillations were derived in the linear inviscid limit. The nonlinear equations were numerically solved to elicit the motion of a foam drop under acoustic excitation. The role of the time-varying void fraction in breathing-mode oscillations is of particular interest. As of the end of the current (NAG#3-2121) grant, this work was not yet concluded. We continue to work on this aspect in order to extend the analysis to cover the transition regime of gas volume fractions, as well as to compare to experiments in the wet regime.
Document ID
20010016050
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Holt, R. Glynn
(Boston Univ. Boston, MA United States)
McDaniel, J. Gregory
(Boston Univ. Boston, MA United States)
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2001
Subject Category
Nonmetallic Materials
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG3-2121
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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