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The present work analyzes numerically the thermocapillary flow studied aboard the Spacelab USML-1 which flew in the summer of 1992. Flows generated under two different heating modes, with flat or curved free surface shapes, are investigated. The results have been used to help design the space experiment. It is shown that thermocapillarity is an important driving force for fluid flow in the absence of gravity and that the driving force is very much affected by the flow itself. That coupling is considered to be responsible for the appearance of oscillatory flow.
This work is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NASA Contract NAS3-25937.
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Kamotani, Y. (1993). Numerical Analysis of Thermocapillary Flow Experiment in Microgravity. In: Ashpis, D.E., Gatski, T.B., Hirsh, R. (eds) Instabilities and Turbulence in Engineering Flows. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1743-2_21
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