Surface tension profiles in vertical soap films

2013/10/01 by N. Adami, Adami, N., H. Caps +1 · 2 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Material Properties and Processing #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.0454

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Abstract

Surface tension profiles in vertical soap films are experimentally investigated. Measurements are performed introducing deformable elastic objets in the films. The shape adopted by those objects set in the film can be related to the surface tension value at a given vertical position by numerical solving of adapted elasticity equations. We show that the observed dependency of the surface tension versus the vertical position in the soap film can be reproduced by simple modeling taking into account film thickness measurements.

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