Conference paper

Editor list: LevasseurRegourd, AC; Worms, JC; Mohlmann, D; Klinger, J

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 1191-1196

Journal: Advances in Space Research

Volume number: 23

Issue number: 7

ISSN: 0273-1177

ISBN: *************

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00181-7

Conference: B1 2 and B1 3 Symposia of COSPAR Scientific Commission B on Exploration of Small Bodies in the Solar System, at the 32nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly

Publisher: Elsevier

Title of series: ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Abstract: 
We report on experiments with small particles (tracers) in a ring vortex of thermocapillary flow (TF) in NaNO3 melt which form for favorable conditions "clouds" if TF is oscillatory and ring structures if TF is time-independent or time-independent with small disturbances. We call this novel phenomenon particle accumulation structure (PAS). PAS is in our case a three-dimensional phenomenon, but we express the hope that modelling PAS numerically can lead to the experimentally tested basis for modelling cloud formation in proto-planetary accretion disks, where these clouds could become embryos for planets, (C) 1999 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.

Harvard Citation style: Schwabe, D. and Frank, S. (1999) Particle accumulation structures (PAS) in the toroidal thermocapillary vortex of a floating zone - Model for a step in planet-formation, Advances in Space Research, 23(7), pp. 1191-1196. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00181-7

APA Citation style: Schwabe, D., & Frank, S. (1999). Particle accumulation structures (PAS) in the toroidal thermocapillary vortex of a floating zone - Model for a step in planet-formation. Advances in Space Research. 23(7), 1191-1196. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00181-7