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Non-isothermal Wetting of an Al Alloy Pin by Al-Si Melt under Terrestrial and Microgravity Conditions

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Gravity is important in multiphase flows as its influence on migration of free liquid surfaces may be comparable to capillary, thermal and compositional effects. Flow of liquid metal over solid surfaces is a type of a problem where microgravity conditions may change wetting and spreading behavior substantially. The problem of viscous flow of a braze Al-Si material on a surface of a metal pin has been studied both experimentally and by means of phase-field simulations. The meniscus shape as a function of time is analyzed at different gravity conditions and melt masses. It was found that, for the considered quantities of brazing fluids, gravity does not have a sizeable impact on meniscus formation. We present the simulations and experimental data obtained in the joint NASA-Roscosmos space experiment BRAINS (REAL) onboard of the ISS.

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The datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to data sharing policy from ROSCOSMOS and NASA but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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This work was funded by Roscosmos Research ISS Program (Joint Space Experiment «Peaл» (Roscosmos program acronym), BRAINS (NASA program acronym)) and NASA’s Physical Sciences Research Program (Grant No. NNX17AB52G). Materials are supported by Gränges AB (Finspång, Sweden). TRILLIUM® is protected by U.S. Patent No. 8871356 as well as corresponding patents and pending patent applications in other major countries. The authors acknowledge a number of useful discussions with Ian M. Hanson of NASA Marshal Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Al, USA. The team acknowledges Konstantinos Lazaridis (Washington State University) for thorough discussions and Adam Price (University of Kentucky) for his technical support.

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  1. Udmurt State University, Universitetskaya St. 1, 426034, Izhevsk, Russia

    Svetlana A. Gruzd, Mikhail D. Krivilyov & Dmitry S. Samsonov

  2. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University, Studensheskaya St.7, 426069, Izhevsk, Russia

    Svetlana A. Gruzd

  3. Udmurt Federal Research Center, Ural Branch of RAS, Baramzinoy str. 34, 426067, Izhevsk, Russia

    Mikhail D. Krivilyov

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA

    Yangyang Wu & Dusan P. Sekulic

  5. School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    Sinisa Dj. Mesarovic

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Gruzd, S.A., Krivilyov, M.D., Samsonov, D.S. et al. Non-isothermal Wetting of an Al Alloy Pin by Al-Si Melt under Terrestrial and Microgravity Conditions. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 34, 65 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-022-09973-0

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