Microgravity Fluid Mechanics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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 moderately large Reynolds numbers.
• Drop and bubble migration at moderate Reynolds and Marangoni numbers.
• Capillary effects associated with the motion of a droplet in a homogeneous medium.
• Steady and oscillating convection phenomena caused by an air bubble beneath a heated wall.
• 3rd Poster Session Applications.
• Distortions of parallel flow in continuous flow electrophoresis.
• Propellent management for satellite propulsion system under microgravity.
• Fire modelling under microgravity conditions.
• Thermal scaling of two-phase heat transport systems for space: predictions versus results of experiments.
• Experimental study of capillary effects for fluid management under microgravity conditions.
• Microgravity liquid-gas interface configuration and surface-tension device design.
• Modelling of binary systems with a miscibility gap behaviour under weightlessness and quasi-weightlessness.
• Measurement of the thermal conductivity of fluids with low viscosity under microgravity.
• Free motion of an unsupported tank that is partially filled with liquid.
• Calibration of thermal anemometer at very low Reynolds numbers under microgravity.
• 6th Session Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows, Solidification, Applications.
• Particle migration at melting and solidification fronts.
• Thermal convection of non-newtonian fluids under low gravity conditions.
• Solidification of a liquid sphere in weightlessness.
• Investigation of density driven large-scale ocean motion undermicrogravity.
• Panel Discussion (Synthesis).
• Contributors.