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Space experiment on the instability of Marangoni convection in large liquid bridge – MEIS-4: effect of Prandtl number

T Yano, et al. (2011). "Space experiment on the instability of Marangoni convection in large liquid bridge - MEIS-4: effect of Prandtl number." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 327 1: 012029

Microgravity experiments on the thermocapillary convection in liquid bridge, called Marangoni Experiment in Space (MEIS), are carried out in "KIBO" of ISS. Three series of experiments, MEIS-1, 2, and 4, have been conducted so far. This paper reports the results obtained from MEIS-4, in which 20cSt silicone oil ( Pr = 207) is used to generate large liquid bridges. They are suspended between coaxial disks that are 50mm in diameter, with their maximum length equal to 62.5mm. MEIS-4 aims at (1) determining the critical temperature difference for the onset of oscillatory flow; (2) realizing high Marangoni number conditions for high Pr fluid; (3) clarifying the effects of volume ratio, heating rate, hysteresis, and cooled disk temperature; and (4) observing whether the hydrothermal wave with azimuthal mode number m = 0 appears or not. The main results are presented and compared with those obtained in MEIS-1 and 2, which utilized liquid bridges of 5cSt silicone oil ( Pr = 67).

Related URLs:
http://stacks.iop.org/1742-6596/327/i=1/a=012029

ISSN: 1742-6596

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Tags: Convection, Fluid physics, Fluids, Hydrothermal wave, Liquid bridge, Marangoni, Marangoni Experiment in Space, MEIS, Microgravity, thermocapillary