| dc.contributor.author | HUTZLER, STEFAN | |
| dc.contributor.author | WEAIRE, DENIS LAWRENCE | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-17T14:06:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-10-17T14:06:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2007 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | S. Hutzler, D. Weaire, S. J. Cox, A. van der Net and E. Janiaud, Pre-empting Plateau: The nature of topological transitions in foam, Europhysics Letters, 77, 2007, 28002-p1 - 28002-p5 | en |
| dc.identifier.other | Y | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/41087 | |
| dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
| dc.description.abstract | When the area of a face in a dry foam approaches zero in some quasistatic processes,
Plateau?s rules dictate that there must be an instability. This is more subtle than generally
supposed.We argue that it is generally pre-empted, that is, the instability arises before an unstable
multiple vertex is formed. Experiments and calculations which simulate Plateau?s wire frame
experiments support this view. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research is supported by ESA/ESTEC (14914/02/
NL/SH (AO 99-108), 14308/00/NL/SH (AO 99-031))
(EJ), Science Foundation Ireland (05/RFP/PHY0016)
(AvdN) and EPSRC (EP/D071127/1) (SJC). DW held
a Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship, as Visiting Professor
at the Instituto Superior T'ecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. DW
would like to thank M. A. Fortes, A. M. Kraynik, K.
Brakke and J. M. Sullivan for stimulating discussions. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 28002-p1 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 28002-p5 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Institute of Physics | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Europhysics Letters; | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 77; | |
| dc.rights | Y | en |
| dc.subject | Condensed Matter Physics | en |
| dc.subject | unstable multiple vertex | en |
| dc.title | Pre-empting Plateau: The nature of topological transitions in foam | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/shutzler | |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/dweaire | |
| dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 42354 | |
| dc.identifier.rssuri | http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/77/2/28002/ | en |
| dc.contributor.sponsor | Science Foundation Ireland | en |
