Materials and fluids under low gravity
Subtitle: proceedings of the IX European Symposium on Gravity-Dependent Phenomena in Physical Sciences, held at Berlin, Germany, 2-5 May 1995
By: Lorenz Ratke, Hannes Walter, Berndt Feuerbacher, (eds.).
Contributors: Ratke, Lorenz, 1949-; Walter, H. U. 1938-; Feuerbacher, B.
Series: Lecture notes in physics ;; vol. 464; Lecture notes in physics ;; 464.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Materials -- Effect of reduced gravity on -- Congresses.; Fluids -- Effect of reduced gravity on -- Congresses.; Reduced gravity environments -- Congresses.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.