Manufacturing in space: Fluid dynamics numerical analysis
Abstract
Thermocapillary convection in an air-jet Marangoni flow suppressing technique was numerically simulated for flow under various conditions of fluid properties, gravity, and temperature gradient. Results presented include computer generated plots of streamlines, velocities, and temperatures throughout the contained fluid flow, and plots of Marangoni flow velocities over the free surface.
- Publication:
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Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Report
- Pub Date:
- February 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984lock.reptQ....R
- Keywords:
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- Computerized Simulation;
- Convective Flow;
- Fluid Dynamics;
- Free Convection;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Space Processing;
- Capillary Flow;
- Flow Velocity;
- Reduced Gravity;
- Silicones;
- Space Commercialization;
- Temperature Distribution;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer