Nonlinear waves in Plateau borders
christophe.raufaste@unice.fr
Institut de Physique de Nice, Nice
Plateau borders are the liquid microchannels found at the intersection between bubbles inside liquid foams. They concentrate most of the mass and their role is essential to account for the foams drainage and mechanical properties. During this presentation, experiments and results will be shown about the relaxation of a single Plateau border that is subject to external perturbations. We will see how a negative effective surface tension drives the dynamics, with a special emphasis on regimes dominated by inertial flows and nonlinear waves.