Drop-tower experiments for capillary surfaces in an exotic container
Abstract
Low-gravity drop-tower experiments are carried out for an 'exotic' rotationally-symmetric container, which admits an entire continuum of distinct equilibrium symmetric capillary free surfaces. It is found that an initial equilibrium planer interface, a member of the continuum, will reorient toward a non-symmetric interface, as predicted by recent mathematical theory.
- Publication:
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29th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
- Pub Date:
- January 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991aiaa.meetU....C
- Keywords:
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- Capillary Flow;
- Containers;
- Drop Towers;
- Interfaces;
- Reduced Gravity;
- Cylindrical Bodies;
- Gravitational Effects;
- Surface Properties;
- Weightlessness;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer