Scaling Behavior in Shaving Cream
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The coarsening of a three-dimensional foam is studied with multiple light-scattering techniques. Scaling behavior is observed with the average bubble diameter growing in time as tz where z=0.45±0.05. Changes in the packing conditions during coarsening give rise to a dynamical process that also exhibits temporal scaling. Neighboring bubbles undergo sudden structural rearrangement events at a rate per unit volume that decays as t−y where y=2.0±0.2.
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1991-12-15
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Physical Review A
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At the time of publication, author Douglas J. Durian was affiliated with Exxon Research and Engineering Company. Currently, he is a faculty member at the Physics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.