The annular foam breaker is one which uses the vacuum and shear force generated by the Coanda effect to break foam. Its effectiveness in destroying drilling foam has been test in wellbore flow simulation loop experimental stand. Experimental results showed that the operating pressure of the annular foam breaker should be larger than 0.6MPa and the stabilizers concentration of the foam drilling ...

Performance advantages of incorporating fluid channels into foam made of DERTEX VN600 (Vinyl Nitrile) are evaluated. This foam has the potential to replace the traditional foam material of helmet liners, like Expanded Polystyrene (EPS). Experiments involved dropping a certified size E headform vertically onto a flat, solid anvil. Elastically deformable and resilient VN foam outperformed EPS dur...

The response of a reticulated, elastomeric foam filled with colloidal silica under dynamic compression is studied. Under compression beyond local strain rates on the order of 1 s 1, the non-Newtonian, colloidal silica-based fluid undergoes dramatic shear thickening and then proceeds to shear thinning. In this regime, the viscosity of the fluid is large enough that the contribution of the foam a...

There is a wide range of dressings classified as ‘foam dressings’; however, there can be substantial differences in the chemical makeup of different foam dressings. Sussman (2010) distinguishes foams into two separate groups, those being a ‘true foam’ that draws fluid into air spaces, or ‘pseudo-foam’ that draws in fluid and physically expands as it retains it. True foams contain hydrophilic po...

Elastomeric polymer foam has been used widely in the automotive industry, especially for isolating unwanted vibrations. Such material is able to absorb unwanted vibration due to its combination of elastic and viscous properties. However, the ‘creep effect’, poor stress distribution and susceptibility to high temperatures are the main disadvantages of such a system. In this study, improvements i...

The annular foam breaker is one which uses the vacuum and shear force generated by the Coanda effect to break foam. The pressure distribution directly affects its performance. So an investigation on the flow characteristics inside the annular foam breaker is important to optimize its structure. In this paper, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, FLUENT, is employed to simulate the flow ...

Foam dynamics is gaining interests within Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computer Graphics. We believe that liquid foam, or froth, is the next evolution in the field of fluid dynamics. Froth is the natural phenomenon of bubbles that arise due to nucleation of gas in liquids. As the physics of foams in two dimensions is better understood this thesis begins the journey of physics-based foam dyn...

Many amphibians lay their eggs in foam nests, which allow the eggs to be deposited out of the water. Analysis of some of these foam nests has revealed that they are a rich source of proteins with unusual primary structures and remarkable surfactant activity, named ranaspumins. The aim of this work was to study the foam nests of the frog Leptodactylus vastus in order to obtain information regard...

We present a physically based real-time water simulation and rendering method that brings volumetric foam to the real-time domain, significantly increasing the realism of dynamic fluids. We do this by combining a particlebased fluid model that is capable of accounting for the formation of foam with a layered rendering approach that is able to account for the volumetric properties of water and f...