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Foam Engineering : Fundamentals and Applications.
Containing contributions from leading academic and industrial researchers, this book provides a much needed update of foam science research. The first section of the book presents an accessible summary of the theory and fundamentals of foams. This includes chapters on morphology, drainage, Ostwald r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Editor; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Gas-Liquid Foam in Products and Processes; 1.2 Content of This Volume; 1.3 A Personal View of Collaboration in Foam Research; Part I: Fundamentals; 2 Foam Morphology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Basic Rules of Foam Morphology; 2.3 Two-dimensional Foams; 2.4 Ordered Foams; 2.5 Disordered Foams; 2.6 Statistics of 3D Foams; 2.7 Structures in Transition: Instabilities and Topological Changes; 2.8 Other Types of Foams; 2.9 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; 3 Foam Drainage; 3.1 Introduction.
- 3.2 Geometric Considerations3.3 A Drained Foam; 3.4 The Continuity Equation; 3.5 Interstitial Flow; 3.6 Forced Drainage; 3.7 Rigid Interfaces and Neglecting Nodes: The Original Foam Drainage Equation; 3.8 Mobile Interfaces and Neglecting Nodes; 3.9 Neglecting Channels: The Node-dominated Model; 3.10 The Network Model: Combining Nodes and Channels; 3.11 The Carman
- Kozeny Approach; 3.12 Interpreting Forced Drainage Experiments: A Detailed Look; 3.13 Unresolved Issues; 3.14 A Brief History of Foam Drainage; 4 Foam Ripening; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Very Wet Limit; 4.3 The Very Dry Limit.
- 4.4 Wet Foams4.5 Controlling the Coarsening Rate; 5 Coalescence in Foams; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Stability of Isolated Thin Films; 5.3 Structure and Dynamics of Foam Rupture; 5.4 What Are the Key Parameters in the Coalescence Process?; 5.5 How Do We Explain the Existence of a Critical Liquid Fraction?; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Foam Rheology; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Main Experimental and Theoretical Approaches; 6.3 Foam Visco-elasticity; 6.4 Yielding; 6.5 Plastic Flow; 6.6 Viscous Dissipation in Steadily Sheared Foams; 6.7 Foam-Wall Viscous Friction; 6.8 Conclusions; Abbreviations; Acknowledgement.
- 7 Particle Stabilized Foams7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A Summary of Some Empirical Observations; 7.3 On the Thermodynamic Stability of Particle Stabilized Foams; 7.4 On the Ability of Particles to Stabilize Foams during Their Production; 7.5 Design Rules for Particle Stabilized Foams; 7.6 Conclusions; Acknowledgement; 8 Pneumatic Foam; 8.1 Preamble; 8.2 Vertical Pneumatic Foam; 8.3 Horizontal Flow of Pneumatic Foam; 8.4 Pneumatic Foam in Inclined Channels; 8.5 Methods of Pneumatic Foam Production; 9 Non-aqueous Foams: Formation and Stability; 9.1 Introduction.
- 9.2 Phase Behavior of Diglycerol Fatty Acid Esters in Oils9.3 Non-aqueous Foaming Properties; 9.4 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 10 Suprafroth: Ageless Two-dimensional Electronic Froth; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 The Intermediate State in Type-I Superconductors; 10.3 Observation and Study of the Tubular Intermediate State Patterns; 10.4 Structural Statistical Analysis of the Suprafroth; Acknowledgements; Part II: Applications; 11 Froth Phase Phenomena in Flotation; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Froth Stability; 11.3 Hydrodynamic Condition of the Froth; 11.4 Detachment of Particles from Bubbles.