Bulletin of the American Physical Society
69th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 61, Number 20
Sunday–Tuesday, November 20–22, 2016; Portland, Oregon
Session C40: On the Frontier: Some Observations of Surface Tension Phenomena from the International Space StationInvited
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Chair: Ronald Adrian, Arizona State University Room: 251-258 |
Sunday, November 20, 2016 12:42PM - 1:17PM |
C40.00001: On the Frontier: Some Observations of Surface Tension Phenomena from the International Space Station Invited Speaker: Don Pettit Frontiers are interesting places; they offer the possibility to make observations outside our normal range of experience. The International Space Station is such a frontier offering a local reduction in acceleration force by nearly a factor of a million thus allowing the observation of subtle phenomena that are typically masked on Earth. In this presentation we show a variety of unusually large length scale fluid interfacial phenomena dominated by electro-hydrodynamics, Marangoni convection, and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. The experimental results presented are largely performed during weekends and other brief time-off periods allotted to the astronaut crew on the ISS. [Preview Abstract] |
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