The JEREMI-Project on thermocapillary convection in liquid bridges. Part A: Overview of Particle Accumulation Structures

HC Kuhlmann, M Lappa, D Melnikov… - Fluid Dynamics and …, 2014 - strathprints.strath.ac.uk
The rapid accumulation of particles suspended in a thermocapillary liquid bridge is planned
to be investigated during the JEREMI experiment on the International Space Station …

Instability of thermocapillary convection in long liquid bridges of high Prandtl number fluids in microgravity

K Nishino, T Yano, H Kawamura, S Matsumoto… - Journal of Crystal …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reports experimental results on the instability of thermocapillary convection in
long half-zone liquid bridges of high Prandtl number fluids (Pr= 67, 112 and 207 for 5, 10 …

Coherent structures of by low-Stokes-number particles suspended in a half-zone liquid bridge of high aspect ratio: Microgravity and terrestrial experiments

T Sakata, S Terasaki, H Saito, S Fujimoto, I Ueno… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We investigate the coherent structures by low-Stokes-number particles suspended in half-
zone liquid bridges of high Prandtl number via microgravity and terrestrial experiments. We …

Modeling of the experiments on the Marangoni convection in liquid bridges in weightlessness for a wide range of aspect ratios

DE Melnikov, V Shevtsova, T Yano, K Nishino - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hydrodynamic stability of a two-dimensional steady thermocapillary flow under
weightlessness in a high-Prandtl number liquid bridge is studied by means of three …

Spatial-temporal behaviors of low-Stokes-number particles forming coherent structures in high-aspect-ratio liquid bridges by thermocapillary effect

S Noguchi, I Ueno - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We investigate experimentally coherent structures of low-Stokes-number particles in the
thermocapillary liquid bridge as a closed system. Such coherent structures in …

Thermal-flow patterns of m= 1 in thermocapillary liquid bridges of high aspect ratio with free-surface heat transfer

Y Fukuda, T Ogasawara, S Fujimoto, T Eguchi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigate the thermal-flow patterns induced by the thermocapillary effect and their
transition conditions in half-zone liquid bridges of high Prandtl number fluid; the effect of …

Coherent particulate structures by boundary interaction of small particles in confined periodic flows

FH Muldoon, HC Kuhlmann - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2013 - Elsevier
Rapid demixing of small density-matched particles in the incompressible flow in a cylindrical
thermocapillary liquid bridge by the mechanism of particle–boundary interaction is studied …

Instability and associated roll structure of Marangoni convection in high Prandtl number liquid bridge with large aspect ratio

T Yano, K Nishino, H Kawamura, I Ueno… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports the experimental results on the instability and associated roll structures
(RSs) of Marangoni convection in liquid bridges formed under the microgravity environment …

Thermocapillary liquid bridges and Marangoni convection under microgravity—results and lessons learned

D Schwabe - Microgravity Science and Technology, 2014 - Springer
We describe the first measurements of the critical Marangoni number of thermocapillary flow
in liquid bridges under microgravity. The experiments were conducted during the ballistic …

Transition to chaotic thermocapillary convection in a half zone liquid bridge

T Matsugase, I Ueno, K Nishino, M Ohnishi… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
A series of fluid physics microgravity experiments with an enough long run time were
performed in the “KIBO,” the Japanese Experiment Module aboard the International Space …