Shear modulus of two-dimensional foams: The effect of area dispersity and disorder

Cox, S.J. and Whittick, E.L. (2006) Shear modulus of two-dimensional foams: The effect of area dispersity and disorder. Euro. Phys. J. E 21:49-56 Sponsorship: EPSRC

The mixing of bubbles in two-dimensional bidisperse foams under extensional shear

Cox, S.J. (2006) The mixing of bubbles in two-dimensional bidisperse foams under extensional shear. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics . 137:39-45.

Drainage induced convection rolls in foams

Hutzler, S., Cox, S.J., Janiaud, E. and Weaire, D. (2007) Drainage induced convection rolls in foams. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects Volume 309, Issues 1-3, 1 November 2007, Pages 33-37 A Collection of Papers Presented at the 6th Eufoam Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 2-6 July, 2006 Sponsorship: European Space Agency (14914/02/NL/SH, 14308/00/NL/SG) (AO-99-031) CCN 002 MAP Project AO-99-075); Science Foundation Ireland (RFP 05/RFP/PHY0016); Royal Society; UWA Learned Societies.

A viscous froth model for dry foams in the Surface Evolver

Cox, S.J. (2005) A Viscous Froth Model for Dry Foams in the Surface Evolver. Coll. Surf. A 263:81-89. Sponsorship: Partial support from both the Ulysses France?Ireland Exchange Scheme and the European Space Agency, Contract 14308/00/NL/SH (AO-99-031) CCN 002 MAP Project AO-99-075.

The Couette shear of foams - a summary

Sponsorship: EPSRC, British Council Alliance programme

Report on the British Society of Rheology mid-winter meeting on The Rheology of Foams and Emulsions, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London 10th - 11th December 2007

S.J. Cox, S. Neethling and H. Wilson (2008) British Society of Rheology mid-winter meeting on The Rheology of Foams and Emulsions. Applied Rheology 18:93-95

On the structure of quasi-two-dimensional foams

S.J. Cox and E. Janiaud (2008) On the structure of quasi-two-dimensional foams. Phil. Mag. Letts. 88:693-701 Philosophical Magazine Letters Volume 88, Issue 9-10, 2008 Special Issue: Solid and Liquid Foams. In commemoration of Manuel Amaral Fortes The full text will be available 12 months after publication Sponsorship: We thank K. Brakke for his development and maintenance of the Surface Evolver code, I. Cantat, N. Denkov and F. Graner for their insightful comments on this work, and the participants in the Grenoble Foam Mechanics Workshop (2008) for their suggestions. EJ thanks D. Weaire and S. Hutzler for support, and ESA (MAP AO-99-108:C14914/02/NL/SH, MAP AO-99-075:C14308/00/NL/SH) for funding. SJC thanks the British Council Alliance programme, CNRS and EPSRC (EP/D048397/1, EP/D071127/1) for financial support.

Steady drainage in emulsions: corrections for surface Plateau borders and a model for high aqueous volume fraction

Peron, N., Cox, S.J., Hutzler, S. and Weaire, D. (2007) Steady drainage in emulsions: corrections for surface Plateau borders and a model for high aqueous volume fraction. The European Physical Journal E - Soft Matter. 22: 341-351. Sponsorship: This research was supported by the European Space Agency (14914/02/NL/SH, 14308/00/NL/SG) (AO-99-031) CCN 002 MAP Project AO-99-075) and Science Foundation Ireland (RFP 05/RFP/PHY0016). SJC acknowledges support from EPSRC (EP/D071127/1).

Yield drag in a two-dimensional foam flow around a circular obstacle: Effect of liquid fraction

Raufaste, C., Dollet, B., Cox, S., Jiang, Y. and Graner, F. (2007). Yield drag in a two-dimensional foam flow around a circular obstacle: Effect of liquid fraction. European Physical Journal E, 23 (2), 217?228 Sponsorship: Y.J. is supported by US DOE under contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396. S.C. is supported by EPSRC (EP/D071127/1)

Metallic foam processing from the liquid state

Cox, S.J., Bradley, G. and Weaire, D. (2001) Metallic foam processing from the liquid state: the competition between solidification and drainage. Eur. Phys. J. AP 14:87-97. Sponsorship: This research was supported by the Prodex programme of ESA, and is a contribution to ESA contract C14308/AO-075-99. SJC was supported by Enterprise Ireland and a Marie Curie fellowship. GB was supported by the HPC Programme of TCD.

Simulations of Two-Dimensional Foam under Couette Shear

null Sponsorship: Financial support is acknowledged from the University of Wales Aberystwyth Senate Fund, the Ulysses France-Ireland Exchange Scheme and EPSRC (EP/D014956/1, EP/D048397/1, EP/D071127/1).

The dynamics of a topological change in a system of soap films

Hutzler, S., Saadatfar, M., van der Net, A., Weaire, D. and Cox, S.J. (2007) The dynamics of a topological change in a system of soap films. Coll. Surf. A, 323:123-131. Sponsorship: This research was supported by the European Space Agency (contracts 14914/02/NL/SH and 14308/00/NL/SH), Science Foundation Ireland. (RFP 05/REP/PHY00/6), and the EU program COST P21 (The Physics of droplets). SJC acknowledges support from EPSRC (EP/D071127/1). MS is supported by the Irish Higher Education Authority (PRTLI-IITAC).