Porous substrate water relations observed during the greenhouse-2 flight experiment

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Bingham, Gail ^a   Jones, Scott B ^a   Podolsky, Igor ^b   Yendler, Boris S ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSES; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; MOISTURE METERS; SPACE STATIONS; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; MIR SPACE STATION; MOISTURE MOVEMENT; POROUS SUBSTRATES; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER PROPAGATION;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 85072462188     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/961547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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