Self-similarity with universal property for soap film and bubble in roll-off stage (2206.00180v2)
Abstract: All children enjoy blowing soap bubbles that also show up in our bath and when we wash dishes. We analyze the thinning and breaking of soap bubble neck when it is stretched. To contrast with the more widely studied film whose boundaries are open, we concentrate on the bubble with a conserved air volume V. Like film (F), non-equilibrium state can be divided into four regimes for bubble (B): (1) roll-off, (2) cusp approach, (3) pinch-off and (4) breakup. We establish the existence of self-similarity in F-1, B-1 and B-3, and universal property in F-1 and B-1 for the profile of soap membrane. The former means that the profile at successive times can be mapped to a master curve after being rescaled by the countdown time \tau. Whiles, the latter further requires this master curve to be identical for different ring sizes R for film and different V and R for bubble while keeping V/R3 fixed. The exhibition of universal property indicates that the process of memory erasing starts earlier than regime 3. We also found that the minimum radius scales as h_{min}~\tau {1/2}, independent of V and pulling speed. Note that the validity of our discussion is limited by the duration of roll-off regime from 10{-2}~10{-3} s.