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On the Three-Dimensional Instability of Thermocapillary Convection in Arbitrarily Heated Floating Zones in Microgravity Environment

A.Yu. Gelfgat¹, A. Rubinov², P.Z. Bar-Yoseph², A. Solan²

1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, TelAviv University, Israel.
2 Computational Mechanics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology