Abstract The onset of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in floating zones has been measured under microgravity in two sounding rocket experiments TEXUS and on board of the satellite SPAS-01. We report on the critical Marangoni numbers measured under μ-g and in the 1-g reference experiments


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    Title :

    Microgravity experiments on the transition from laminar to oscillatory thermocapillary convection in floating zones


    Contributors:
    Schwabe, D. (author) / Scharmann, A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1984-01-01


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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