Delayed elastic contributions to the viscoelastic response of foams

Abstract

We show that the slow viscoelastic response of a foam is that of a power-law fluid with a terminal relaxation. Investigations of the foam mechanics in creep and recovery tests reveal that the power-law contribution is fully reversible, indicative of a delayed elastic response. We demonstrate how this contribution fully accounts for the non-Maxwellian features observed in all tests, probing the linear mechanical response function. The associated power-law spectrum is consistent with soft glassy rheology of systems with mechanical noise temperatures just above the glass transition [Fielding et al., J.Rheol. 44, 323(2000)] and originates from a combination of superdiffusive bubble dynamics and stress diffusion, as recently evidenced in simulations of coarsening foam [Hwang et al., Nat.Mater. 15, 1031 (2016)].

arXiv comment11 pages, 7 figures, data available on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6381567. Copyright (2022) Author(s). This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License

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