Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Fluid foams are two-phase fluids with a great variety of textures which may change during their deformation processes. Their continuum mechanical modelling is made problematic by the difficulty of individuating what to regard as a material point. In Part 1, the simplest shearing motion of a monodisperse, close-packed, two-dimensional fluid foam is here revisited. In Part 2, the notion of a foamy continuum, that is, an ordinary continuum body imitating the foam’s behaviour, is introduced. The final section contains a brief discussion of the thermodynamics of a shear deformation process involving a topological change of texture.
Source: Meccanica
Authors: Cesare Davini, Paolo Podio-Guidugli
Language: English
Subfield: Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Field: Chemical Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,990
OpenAlex ID: W4409180466