The impact of spacecraft acceleration environment on Protein Crystal Growth (PCG) is studied. A brief overview of the Space Shuttle acceleration environment is provided followed by a simple scaling procedure used to obtain estimates of the flow and concentration field characteristics in PCG. A detailed two-dimensional numerical model is then used to simulate the PCG system response to different disturbance scenarios; viz. residual g effects, impulse type disturbances and oscillatory inputs. The results show that PCG is susceptible to g-jitter and is a good candidate for vibration isolation.


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    Title :

    G-Jitter Effects in Protein Crystal Growth - A Numerical Study


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Fluid Dynamics & Thermophysics Conference ; 1995 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    1995-06-22


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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