Evolution of two-dimensional cellular structures: The soap froth

Joel Stavans

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1993, vol. 194, issue 1, 307-314

Abstract: Soap froths are paradigms of a class of evolving systems known as cellular structures. The evolution of mature structures is characterized by system-independent or universal statistical distributions which have scaling properties. Recent experimental work on two-dimensional soap froths will be presented to illustrate the latter. A theoretical model that accounts for these universal distributions by a mechanism of marginal stability will be presented.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(93)90363-9

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