Undulation instability in two-dimensional foams of magnetic fluid
F.
Elias, I. Drikis, A. Cebers, C. Flament, and J.-C. Bacri
Two-dimensional magnetic fluid foams are cellular structures whose
framework is made of magnetic fluid. The features of these equilibrated
patterns are driven by a control parameter: the amplitude of the applied
magnetic field. When the latter is
rapidly increased, an instability occurs: the walls between cells undulate.
Such an instability has also been observed in other 2D cellular structures,
which exist for instance in Langmuir monolayers or in magnetic garnets thin films.
In this paper we give a theoretical analysis of this instability, the issues of
which are shown to be well confirmed by experiments and numerical simulations.