Microgravity Fluid Mechanics IUTAM Symposium Bremen 1991

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 a rotating 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 under microgravity. - Panel Discussion (Synthesis). - Contributors.