Coarsening of Two Dimensional Foam on a Dome

Abstract

In this paper we report on bubble growth rates and on the statistics of bubble topology for the coarsening of a dry foam contained in the narrow gap between two hemispheres. By contrast with coarsening in flat space, where six-sided bubbles neither grow nor shrink, we observe that six sided bubbles grow with time at a rate that depends on their size. This result agrees with the modification to von Neumann's law predicted by J.E. Avron and D. Levine. For bubbles with a different number of sides, except possibly seven, there is too much noise in the growth rate data to demonstrate a difference with coarsening in flat space. In terms of the statistics of bubble topology, we find fewer 3, 4, and 5 sided bubbles, and more 6 and greater sided bubbles, in comparison with the stationary distribution for coarsening in flat space. We also find good general agreement with the Aboav-Weaire law for the average number of sides of the neighbors of an n-sided bubble.

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