Microgravity Fluid Mechanics

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -1st Session Interface Phenomena of Pure Fluids under Isothermal Conditions.- Static and dynamic response of liquid bridges.- On accurate determination of contact angle.- Liquid bridge ocsillations: analytical and numerical results.- Viscosity effects on the dynamics of long axisymmetric liquid bridges.- Vibrational behavior of amphora liquid columns in microgravity fields.- 1st Poster Session Interface Phenomena I.- Marangoni-convection in a non-spherical liquid drop.- Some problems raised by Marangoni instability in spherical geometry.- Marangoni convection in drops under microgravity conditions.- Stationary Marangoni instability in a liquid layer due to non-isothermal gas absorption.- Three-dimensional transient simulation of Marangoni flow in a cylindrical enclosure under various gravity levels.- Influence of the temperature gradient on the oscillatory instabilities of thermocapillary flow at a rotating interface.- Simultaneous measurement of the temperature and velocity field in thermocapillary convections of bubbles.- Influence of the electromagnetic, g-jitter or thermocapillary forces on the stability of the stationary buoyancy convection.- The influence of high frequency tangential vibrations on the stability of the fluid interfaces in microgravity.- Thermocapillary flows and deformations of the surface in the systems of fluid layers with the longitudinal temperature gradient in microgravity.- 2nd Session Residual Acceleration Effects, Fluid Handling.- Fluid management under micro-gravity conditions in technical applications.- The sensitivity of a non-isothermal liquid bridge to residual acceleration.- Effect of g-jitter on liquid free surfaces in microgravity.- Theoretical investigation of the rotating disks flow of one and two-phase fluids in microgravity.- Transient convection caused by acceleration disturbances.- 3rd Session Convection Induced by Interface-Tension-Gradients: Marangoni-Effects.- Experimental studies of thermal Marangoni-effects.- Upper layer flow phenomena in two immiscible liquid layers subject to a horizontal temperature gradient.- Surface waves in a free liquid-gas interface by oscillatory Marangoni convection.- Thermocapillary convection in a magnetic field.- Experimental investigation of the management of large-sized drops and the onset of Marangoni-convection.- 2nd Poster Session Interface Phenomena II, Convective Processes, Solidification.- Bubble migration under the combined action of buoyancy and thermocapillarity.- Effects of the natural convection on fuel droplet evaporation.- Thermal convection in microgravity during a slow rotation.- Stability of a spherical and a catenoidal liquid bridge between two parallel plates in the absence of gravitiy.- Equilibrium shapes, stability and dynamical behaviour of liquid captive menisci under gravitational, centrifugal and electrical fields.- Linear stability of Marangoni-Hartmann-convection.- Numerical analysis of the sensitivity of crystal growth experiments to spacecraft residual acceleration.- Thermocapillary bubble migration - an Oseen-like analysis of the energy equation.- Applications of bifurcation theory to the problem of rotating liquid drops in space.- Surface tension effects on the onset of double-diffusive convection.- 4th Session Combustion, Physico-Chemical Processes, Multiphase Phenomena.- Computational/experimental basis for conducting alkane droplet combustion experiments on space-based-platforms.- Ignition delay of premixed gases under microgravity conditions.- Velocity measurement by PIV in flames.- Stability of the vapour phase in arotating two-phase fluid system subjected to different gravitational intensities.- Mathematical modelling of microsphere formation under short-time weightlessness.- 5th Session Convection Induced by Interface-Tension-Gradients: Bubbles and Drops.- Thermocapillary motion of bubbles and drops.- Thermocapillary migration of bubbles at moderat. …