Domaines
Soft matter
Type of internship
Expérimental Description
The experimental internship will probe bubble dynamics in wet foams, and in particular the role of attractive interactions between the bubbles on this process. In three dimensional samples this is impossible on Earth because gravity leads to the liquid flowing out of the foam changing the gas volume fraction (resulting in dry foams). To get around this we have two solutions, we will carry out experiments on the coarsening of thin layers of bubbles and work with data obtained aboard the International Space Station in microgravity. The experiments consist of making foam, taking images and treating the images, while the microgravity data only requires image treatment and finding a description the underlying physical mechanisms.
Contact
Anniina Salonen