Some experimental progresses in the study of self-rewetting fluids for the SELENE experiment to be carried in the Thermal Platform 1 hardware

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 89, Issue , 2013, Pages 179-188

  Savino, R ^a   Cecere, A ^a   Vaerenbergh, S Van ^b   Abe, Y ^c   Pizzirusso, G ^a   Tsevecos, W ^b   Mojahed, M ^b   Galand, Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

Heat pipe; Heat transfer; Mass transfer; Self rewetting; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; SELF-REWETTING; SELF-REWETTING FLUIDS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODELS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84877775276     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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