Interface Configuration Experiment: Preliminary results
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OSTI ID:10105396
- 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
The Interface Configuration Experiment (ICE) was carried out on USML-1 to investigate liquid-gas interfaces in certain rotationally-symmetric containers having prescribed, mathematically derived shapes. These containers have the property that they admit an entire continuum of distinct equilibrium rotationally-symmetric interfaces for a given liquid volume and contact angle. Furthermore, it can be shown that none of these interfaces can be stable. 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, in accordance with 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:
- 10105396
- Report Number(s):
- LBL--34819; CONF-9309279--1; ON: DE94003413; CNN: GRANT NAG3-1143; GRANT DMS89-02831
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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