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The foam drainage equation

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, , Citation G Verbist et al 1996 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 8 3715 DOI 10.1088/0953-8984/8/21/002

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1 Shell Research and Technology Centre, Amsterdam (Shell International Oil Products B.V.), PO Box 38000, 1030 BN Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2 Physics Department, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

3 Engineering Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0834, USA

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  1. Received 14 February 1996

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Abstract

The drainage of liquid in a foam may be described in terms of a nonlinear partial differential equation for the foam density as a function of time and vertical position. We review the history and recent development of this theory, analysing various exact and approximate solutions and relating them to each other.

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