Materials and Fluids Under low Gravity: Proceedings of the IXth European Symposium on Gravity-Dependent Phenomena in Physical Sciences Held at Berlin, Germany, 2–5 May 1995

D. Beysens (auth.), Lorenz Ratke, Hannes Walter, Berndt Feuerbacher (eds.)3540606777, 9783540606772

This careful selection of papers gives the reader an overview of the main research topics investigated at the conference and recent progress in understanding the physical phenomena involved. These lectures should therefore be a prime source of information for the expert as well as for graduate students. They cover critical point phenomena and adsorption, solidification, crystallization, static fluids and thermophysical properties, fluid dynamics and combustion. The importance of gravity as an experimental parameter and a variable in a large diversity of physical phenomena and processes has been recognized for some 25 years. The growth of this field of physics can be gleamed from the great number of satellites, sounding rockets, terrestrial trop towers, etc., that exist.

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Table of contents :
New critical phenomena observed under weightlessness….Pages 3-25
Numerical solutions of thermoacoustic and buoyancy-driven transport in a near critical fluid….Pages 27-40
Adsorption kinetics and exchange of matter at liquid interfaces and microgravity….Pages 41-50
Critical depletion of pure fluids in colloidal solids: Results of experiments on EURECA and grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations….Pages 51-59
Dendritic growth measurements in microgravity….Pages 63-75
A study of morphological stability during directional solidification of a Sn−Bi alloy in microgravity….Pages 77-94
Response of crystal growth experiments to time-dependent residual accelerations….Pages 95-104
Growth of 20 mm diameter GaAs crystals by the floating zone technique during the D-2 Spacelab Mission….Pages 105-113
Microstructure evolution in immiscible AlSiBi alloys under reduced gravity conditions….Pages 115-133
Crystallization in solutions: Effects of micogravity conditions….Pages 137-154
An investigation of the perfection of lysozyme protein crystals grown in microgravity and on earth….Pages 155-170
Fluid-dynamic modelling of protein crystallyzers….Pages 171-194
Plasma crystals….Pages 195-217
Are liquids molten solids or condensed gases?….Pages 221-231
Containerless processing in space: Recent results….Pages 233-252
The effect of natural convection on the measurement of mass transport coefficients in the liquid state….Pages 253-259
Proboscis container shapes for the USML-2 interface configuration experiment….Pages 261-270
Response of a liquid bridge to an acceleration varying sinusoidally with time….Pages 271-279
Nonuniform interfacial tension-driven fluid flows….Pages 283-298
Pure thermocapillary convection in a multilayer system: First results from the IML-2 mission….Pages 299-311
On vibrational convective instability of a horizontal binary mixture layer with Soret effect….Pages 313-321
Thermocapillary convection in liquid bridges with a deformed free surface….Pages 323-329
Onset of oscillatory Marangoni convection in a liquid bridge….Pages 331-341
Convection visualization and temperature fluctuation measurement in a molten silicon column….Pages 343-349
The micro wedge model: A physical description of nucleate boiling without external forces….Pages 351-359
Theoretical models for boiling at microgravity….Pages 361-370
Chemically driven convection in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction….Pages 371-384
Combustion processes under microgravity conditions….Pages 387-400
Flat plate diffusion flames: Numerical simulation and experimental validation for different gravity levels….Pages 401-413
High pressure droplet burning experiments in reduced gravity….Pages 415-424