An interface configuration experiment on USML-1
Conference
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OSTI ID:10133899
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Mathematics
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center
Experiments were carried out for ``exotic`` rotationally symmetric containers aboard the first NASA United States Microgravity Laboratory Space Shuttle flight (USML-1). The containers have the property that they admit an entire continuum of distinct equilibrium rotationally-symmetric capillary free-surfaces for a given liquid volume and contact angle. It was found, after the containers were filled in orbit, that an initial equilibrium interface from the symmetric continuum reoriented, when perturbed, to a stable interface that was not rotationally symmetric, as predicted by the mathematical theory.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 10133899
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-33391; AIAA-93-0253; CONF-930108-5; ON: DE93007662; CNN: Grant NAG3-1143; Grant DMS89-02831
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 31. American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) aerospace sciences meeting,Reno, NV (United States),11-14 Jan 1993; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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