Growing bubbles rising in line
by
J.F. Harper
School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Over many years the author and others have given theories for bubbles rising in line in a liquid. Theory has usually suggested that the bubbles will tend towards a stable distance apart, but experiments have often showed them pairing off and sometimes coalescing. However, existing theory seems not to deal with the case of bubbles growing as they rise, which they do if the liquid is boiling, or is a supersaturated solution of a gas, or simply because the pressure decreases with height. That omission is now addressed.

Date received: August 24, 1999

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