Microgravity Fluid Mechanics

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.