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Fluids, Materials and Microgravity
Numerical Techniques and Insights into Physics
A definitive resource exploring the effect of microgravity conditions on properties and behaviours of materials, covering extensive fundamental knowledge and new mathematical techniques
Marcello Lappa (Author)
9780080445083, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 9 December 2004
538 pages
24 x 16.5 x 3.1 cm, 1.11 kg
Each year, universities and research centres – most particularly the major space agencies such as NASA, ESA, and NASDA – devote a vast amount of time and money into the research of materials behaviour and production in microgravity. Recently, the possibility of creating special alloys, inorganic and organic crystals, as well as biological (living) tissues in this condition has been investigated. Fluids, Materials and Microgravity provides a solid basis of established knowledge – through literature, fundamental studies, experimental methods, numerical (basic and sophisticated) techniques – as well as the latest in research advancements. Important for the prediction of material behaviour when exposed to the environment of space, this book explores the new knowledge provided by microgravity-based studies in producing unique inorganic, and organic materials on Earth (and in designing related new technological processes). A vital resource for any scientists interested in the understanding and modelling of the new important physical mechanisms disclosed by microgravity research, and in their possible effect on the production and behaviour of materials both in space and on Earth. A vital resource for any scientists interested in the effect of microgravity on the production and behaviour of materials.
Chapter 1: Space research Chapter 2: Fundamental concepts, mathematical models and scaling analysis for the microgravity environment Chapter 3: Dispersed droplets and metal alloys Chapter 4: Growth of semiconductors: the floating zone technique Chapter 5: Macromolecular crystal growth: surface kinetics and morphological studies Chapter 6: Macromolecular crystal growth at macroscopic length scales Chapter 7: The growth of biological tissues References Index
Subject Areas: Flow, turbulence, rheology [TGMF3], Materials science [TGM], Fluid mechanics [PHDF]
