Microgravity Fluid Mechanics IUTAM Symposium Bremen 1991 [Paperback]

1st Session Interface Phenomena of Pure Fluids under Isothermal Conditions.- Static and dynamic response of liquid bridges.- On accurate determination of contact angle.- Liquid bridge ocsillations: analytical and numerical results.- Viscosity effects on the dynamics of long axisymmetric liquid bridges.- Vibrational behavior of amphora liquid columns in microgravity fields.- 1st Poster Session Interface Phenomena I.- Marangoni-convection in a non-spherical liquid drop.- Some problems raised by Marangoni instability in spherical geometry.- Marangoni convection in drops under microgravity conditions.- Stationary Marangoni instability in a liquid layer due to non-isothermal gas absorption.- Three-dimensional transient simulation of Marangoni flow in a cylindrical enclosure under various gravity levels.- Influence of the temperature gradient on the oscillatory instabilities of thermocapillary flow at a rotating interface.- Simultaneous measurement of the temperature and velocity field in thermocapillary convections of bubbles.- Influence of the electromagnetic, g-jitter or thermocapillary forces on the stability of the stationary buoyancy convection.- The influence of high frequency tangential vibrations on the stability of the fluid interfaces in microgravity.- Thermocapillary flows and deformations of the surface in the systems of fluid layers with the longitudinal temperature gradient in microgravity.- 2nd Session Residual Acceleration Effects, Fluid Handling.- Fluid management under micro-gravity conditions in technical applications.- The sensitivity of a non-isothermal liquid bridge to residual acceleration.- Effect of g-jitter on liquid free surfaces in microgravity.- Theoretical investigation of the rotating disks flow of one and two-phase fluids in microgravity.- Transient convection caused by acceleration disturbances.- 3rd Session Convection Induced by Interface-Tension-Gradients: Marangoni-Effects.- Experimental studies of thermal Marangoni-effects.- Upper laylã*