Experiment

Experiment
A.016

Experiment
Forced liquid motion

Primary investigator
Vreeburg, J.P.B.

Contact point
National Aerospace Laboratory, The Netherlands

Category
Fluid Sciences

Sub research areas
Forced oscillation of weightless liquid.

Keywords
Capillary liquid resonance

Subject of investigation
Liquid surface behaviour

Subject name
Model tank with water

Standard method
Observation of tracer patterns in slit beam illumination

Specific method
As implemented in Fluid Physics Module

Experiment procedure
  1. Installation
  2. Establishment of initial conditions
  3. Run

Experiment

Experiment
WL-FPM-08

Funding agency
NIVR

Launcher
Space Shuttle

Platform
Spacelab

Mission
Spacelab D-1

Facility
Fluid Physics Module

Duration
ñ 45 min.

Equipment
Three PI-provided partially filled containers and viewing aid.

Success
Marginal; initial conditions not established as specified.

Operational Constraints
Microgravity better than 10-3g.


Extracted from a prototype of the Dutch Microgravity Compact Disc