European Space Agency experiments on thermodiffusion of fluid mixtures in space

M Braibanti, PA Artola, P Baaske, H Bataller… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
This paper describes the European Space Agency (ESA) experiments devoted to study
thermodiffusion of fluid mixtures in microgravity environment, where sedimentation and …

A light scattering study of non equilibrium fluctuations in liquid mixtures to measure the Soret and mass diffusion coefficient

F Croccolo, H Bataller, F Scheffold - The Journal of chemical physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We use dynamic near field scattering to measure the dynamics of concentration non
equilibrium fluctuations at the steady-state of Soret separation. The analysis reveals that …

Evaluation of the shadowgraph method for the determination of mutual and thermal diffusivities

PS Schmidt, MH Rausch, W Wu… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The present work provides a systematic study on the influence of sample properties and
experimental conditions on the reliable accessibility of Fick or mutual diffusion coefficients D …

Determination of diffusivities in binary fluid mixtures with various Lewis numbers as well as positive and negative Soret coefficients by the shadowgraph method

W Wu, PS Schmidt, M Piszko, C Giraudet… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The present work demonstrates the accessibility of the Fick diffusion coefficient D 11 and/or
the thermal diffusivity a of the binary mixtures dicyclohexylmethane/diphenylmethane, n …

Giant fluctuations induced by thermal diffusion in complex liquids

A Vailati, P Baaske, H Bataller, S Bolis… - Microgravity science and …, 2020 - Springer
The GRADFLEX experiment of ESA has shown that under microgravity conditions a
stationary thermodiffusion process is accompanied by giant non-equilibrium fluctuations with …

Convective dissolution of carbon dioxide into brine in a three-dimensional free medium

P Fruton, A Nauruzbaeva, H Bataller, C Giraudet… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
When carbon dioxide (CO 2) is layered on top of brine, the diffusion occurring at the
interface generates an intermediate layer denser than the brine one. This may generate a …

Shadowgraph analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations for measuring transport properties in microgravity in the GRADFLEX experiment

F Croccolo, C Giraudet, H Bataller, R Cerbino… - … Science and Technology, 2016 - Springer
In a fluid system driven out of equilibrium by the presence of a gradient, fluctuations become
long-ranged and their intensity diverges at large spatial scales. This divergence is prevented …

The modern structurator: increased performance for calculating the structure function

M Norouzisadeh, M Chraga, G Cerchiari… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The autocorrelation function is a statistical tool that is often combined with dynamic light
scattering (DLS) techniques to investigate the dynamical behavior of the scattered light …

Propagating modes in a binary liquid mixture under thermal stress

F Croccolo, L García-Fernández, H Bataller, A Vailati… - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Nonequilibrium temperature and concentration fluctuations inside a binary liquid mixture
under the action of a temperature gradient relax back to equilibrium either due to conduction …

Modeling and correction of image drift in dynamic shadowgraphy experiments

S Castellini, M Brizioli, C Giraudet, M Carpineti… - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
The study of phoretic transport phenomena under non-stationary conditions presents
several challenges, mostly related to the stability of the experimental apparatus. This is …