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The Capillary Flow Experiments Aboard ISS: Moving Contact Line Experiments and Numerical Analysis

Mark, Weislogel, et al. (2008). "The Capillary Flow Experiments Aboard ISS: Moving Contact Line Experiments and Numerical Analysis." 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

This paper serves as a first presentation of quantitative data reduced from the Capillary Flow Contact Line Experiments recently completed aboard the International Space Station during Expeditions 9-16, 8/2004-11/2007. The simple fluid interface experiments probe the uncertain impact of the boundary condition at the contact line—the region where liquid, gas, and solid meet. This region controls perhaps the most significant static and dynamic characteristics of the large length scale capillary phenomena critical to most multiphase fluids management systems aboard spacecraft. Differences in fluid behavior of nearly identical static interfaces to nearly identical perturbations are attributed primarily to differences in fluid physics in the vicinity of the contact line. Free and pinned contact lines, large and small contact angles, and linear and nonlinear perturbations are tested for a variety of perturba- tion types (i.e. axial, slosh, and other modes) to right circular cylinders. The video and digi- tized datasets are to be made publicly available for model benchmarking. In parallel with the experimental effort, blind numerical predictions of the dynamic interface response to the experimentally applied input perturbations are offered as a demonstration of current capa- bilities to predict such phenomena. The agreement and lack of agreement between the experiments and numerics is our best guide to improve and/or verify current analytical methods to predict such phenomena critical to spacecraft fluid systems design.

Related URLs:
http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-816

DOI: doi:10.2514/6.2008-816 10.2514/6.2008-816

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Tags: Boundary condition, Capillary Flow Experiment, CFE, CL, Contact angle, Contact line, Fluid behavior, Fluid interface, Fluid physics, Gas, International Space Station, ISS, Liquid, Microgravity, Solid, Space Flight, Spacecraft, Spaceflight