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Sound wave attenuation in foam

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Experimental measurements are presented for sound wave attenuation in foam without additives (standing wave method) and in foam with added particles (pulse method). A setup is developed that makes it possible to obtain a standing sound wave in stable foam and estimate the attenuation coefficient. A comparison is made of the coefficients of sound attenuation in foam in the sonic and ultrasonic frequency ranges, which have been published in a number of works. It is shown that the introduction of particles into foam leads to an increase in sound wave attenuation and may be the result of the viscous mechanism of sound wave energy loss.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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Original Russian Text © V.T. Faerman, 2016, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2016, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 24–28.

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Faerman, V.T. Sound wave attenuation in foam. Acoust. Phys. 62, 22–26 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771016010024

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