Abstract
Small spheroidal samples of aqueous foam (‘‘foam drops’’) of varying gas volume fraction are acoustically levitated in an ultrasonic field. The normalized natural frequency and damping ratio are determined by treating a foam drop as a damped linear oscillator and measuring shape mode frequency response. The observed natural frequencies are compared to a wet foam model without any fitting parameters. Good agreement is found for gas volume fractions ranging from 0.01 to 0.87. The observed damping ratio of a foam drop exhibits a maximum for gas volume fractions 0.5 to 0.7. The data are inverted to infer the shear elastic modulus and its dependence on gas volume fraction for dry foams. [Work supported by NASA.]
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