Properties of three-dimensional bubbles of constant mean curvature |
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| Authors: | S. J. Cox M. A. Fortes |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics , Trinity College , Dublin 2, Ireland;2. Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais , Instituto Superior Técnicostituto de Ciência e Engenharia de Materiais e Superfícies , Avenida Rovisco Pais, Lisboa Codex, 1096, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | Foam bubbles of constant mean curvature with a number of faces between 3 and 32 have been computer generated. The surface area per unit volume is only weakly dependent upon the number of faces, which allows an approximate equation for the energy of a three-dimensional foam to be derived. A further relation between the rate of change in the volume of a bubble due to gas diffusion and its number of faces is compared with existing theory. |
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