Conference paper

Editor list: Schwabe, D

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 1391-1396

Journal: Advances in Space Research

Volume number: 24

Issue number: 10

ISSN: 0273-1177

ISBN: *************

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00751-6

Conference: G0 1 Symposium of COSPAR Scientific Commission G Held at the 32nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly

Publisher: Elsevier

Title of series: ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Abstract: 
We report on the preliminary results of a 14 h duration microgravity experiment (MAUS G 141), conducted on STS 89 in January 1998 during its docking phase to the MIR space station. Two NaNO3-melt floating zones (diameter = 6.00 mm, lengths l(1) = 2.5 mm, l(2) = 4.5 mm) have been established under mu-g and up to 100 different axial temperature gradients have been applied for 270 s, each. The temperature oscillations of oscillatory thermocapillary convection (TC) have been measured with three fine thermocouples at different azimutal position and the flow has been visualized by tracers in central vertical light sheets and recorded by video cameras. The crystal - melt interface, shaped by heat transport due to TC, flow - structures, oscillations frequencies for various Marangoni-numbers Ma and transition to chaotic thermocapillary flow are reported. (C) 1999 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.

Harvard Citation style: Schwabe, D. and Frank, S. (1999) Experiments on the transition to chaotic thermocapillary flow in floating zones under microgravity, Advances in Space Research, 24(10), pp. 1391-1396. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00751-6

APA Citation style: Schwabe, D., & Frank, S. (1999). Experiments on the transition to chaotic thermocapillary flow in floating zones under microgravity. Advances in Space Research. 24(10), 1391-1396. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00751-6