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Convection and Bulk Transport

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Materials Sciences in Space

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Probably the most alluring prospect of performing experiments in a low-gravity environment is the ability of freeing an experiment from the action of the earth’s gravity, which although constant and of known direction, has pronounced effects on the processing of fluids and gases. The most important effects of gravity are the impossibility of levitating a fluid mass isolated from solid surfaces and the consequences of buoyancy-driven-convection caused by gradients of temperature and concentration in the fluid. It was recognized over a decade ago that the large reductions in gravity possible aboard an orbital spacecraft will remove these two effects and lead to new experiments and, possibly, to the development of new methods for processing materials. In conjunction with the enormous interest in experimental research in a low-gravity environment, many new analyses have been reported that add to the understanding of transport phenomena both on earth and in space relevant to the design and intepretation of these experiments.

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