Marangoni heat pipe: An experiment on board MIOsat Italian microsatellite

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 65, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1582-1592

  Savino, Raffaele ^a   Cecere, Anselmo ^a   Di Paola, Roberto ^a   Abe, Yoshiyuki ^b   Castagnolo, Dario ^c   Fortezza, Raimondo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c MARS srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heat pipe; Marangoni effect; Microgravity experiment; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLIC SOLUTIONS; DEDICATED HARDWARE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; FLIGHT HARDWARE; ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY; MARANGONI; MARANGONI EFFECT; MICRO SATELLITE; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENT; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; SELF-REWETTING FLUIDS;

CAPILLARITY; HEAT PIPES; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES; WETTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70349759577     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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