Interim results from the capillary flow experiment aboard ISS: The moving contact line boundary condition

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 9252-9259

  Weislogel, Mark M ^a,c   Jenson, Ryan ^a,c   Klatte, Jörg ^b,d   Dreyer, Michael ^b,c  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (Germany)

^d Am Fallturm   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONAUTS; CONTACT LINES; FLUID BEHAVIORS; MULTIPHASE FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NASA; SPACE STATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

EID: 34250815635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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