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Heat Transfers and Related Effects in Supercritical Fluids

Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications ((FMIA,volume 108))

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A brief presentation of the hardware of two main facilities (ALICE in MIR space station and CPF onboard the Space Shuttle) dedicated to the experiments analyzed in the book. The availability of long-duration experimental runs (typically greater than one week long) and the high quality of the microgravity environment (residual accelerations typically in the range \(10^{-4}\text { to }10^{-3}\, g_{0}\)) have allowed fast temperature equilibration and slow density relaxation processes to be investigated in detail using these facilities. In addition, the principle and the limitations of a \(\mathrm H _{2}\) magnetic levitation setup used to create microgravity conditions on Earth are also presented. Although it does not compensate for gravity in a uniform manner, this setup provides much longer experimental times and is very useful for calibrating instrumentation and performing exploratory research, in particular to investigate the effects of vibrations.

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  1. Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse Cedex 9, 31401, France

    Bernard Zappoli

  2. Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris and Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, 10 rue Vauquelin, Paris, 75005, France

    Daniel Beysens

  3. Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Bordeaux 1, Pessac Cedex, 33608, France

    Yves Garrabos

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Zappoli, B., Beysens, D., Garrabos, Y. (2015). The Hardware. In: Heat Transfers and Related Effects in Supercritical Fluids. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9187-8_23

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