A.H. Ahadi1, M.Z. Saghir1
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.8, No.4, pp. 397-422, 2012, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2012.008.397
Abstract The numerical simulations of a thermodiffusion experiment in atmospheric pressure binary mixtures of water and isopropanol subject to micro-vibrations at reduced gravity are presented. The vibrations are induced on board ISS and FOTON-M3 due to many different reasons like crew activity, spacecraft docking or operating other experiments, etc. The effects of micro-gravity vibration were investigated in detail on all of the mixture properties. The influences of different cavity sizes as well as different signs of Soret coefficients in the solvent were considered. In this paper, the thermodiffusion experiment was subjected to two different g-jitter vibrations… More >