Foams: Structure and Dynamics

Aqueous foams are studied both as materials with many applications, and as model systems for fields ranging from metallurgy to mathematics to biology. They are complex fluids with unique and unusual properties, exemplified as much by their multiscale structure as by the dynamical processes through which they evolve and even their dual liquid-like and solid-like behaviour. In this book, readers can easily find clear, up-to-date answers to their questions regarding the physical and physico-chemical properties of aqueous foams, explained using current knowledge of their structure, their stability, and their rheology. Newcomers to the field will find descriptions of numerous applications of foams in daily life and in industrial processes, the definition of basic concepts, hundreds of figures, and simple experiments to perform at home. Those who want to proceed further will find updated references, exercises with solutions, appendices with experimental and numerical techniques, and boxed text with the further mathematical detail.