An interface configuration experiment on USML-1

Conference · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:7060684

Concus, P ^[1]; Finn, R ^[2]; Weislogel, M ^[3]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
2. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Mathematics
3. 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: DOE; NASA; NSF; 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: 7060684
• Report Number(s): LBL-33391; AIAA--93-0253; CONF-930108--5; ON: DE93007662; CNN: NAG3-1143; DMS89-02831
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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