Microgravity Fluid Physics Legacy Home Page

This page links to Microgravity Fluid Physics research pages that highlighted actual flight projects. Use this page to find links to those investigations. This page also links to the transitional experiment currently operating on ISS: Binary Colloidal Crystal Alloys-3. All outdated pages have been removed from this server.

Fluid Physics Research Areas:

Complex Fluids
Dynamics & Instabilities
Interfacial Phenomena
Multiphase & Phase Change
Biofluids

Complex Fluids (Some of these links go to non-NASA sites)

• Binary Colloidal Crystal Alloys (BCAT, BCAT-2) (Weitz, D.)
• COLLisions Into Dust Experiment - 2 (COLLIDE-2) (Colwell, J.)
• Colloidal Disorder-Order Transition 1 and 2 (CDOT) and (CDOT-2) (Chaikin, P.)
• Colloidal Gelation (CGEL) (Weitz, D.)
• Critical Fluids Viscosity Measurement Experiment (CVX) (Berg, R.)
• Critical Fluid Thermal Equilibrium Experiment
• Extensional Rheology Experiment (ERE) (McKinley, G.)
• Investigating the Structure of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions (InSPACE) (Gast, A.)
• Physics of Colloids in Space (PCS) (Weitz, D.)
• Physics of Hard Sphere Experiments (PHaSE) (Chaikin, P.)

Dynamics & Instabilities

• Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiments - STDCE-1 and STDCE-2 (Ostrach, S.)
• Interface Configuration Experiments (ICE): USML-1, USML-2, and Mir/Priroda (Concus, P.)

Multiphase & Phase Change

• Capillary Heat Transfer (CHT) (Hallinan, K.)
• Pool Boiling Experiment (PBE) (Merte, H.)

Biofluids

• LLS Eye Diagnostic Device (Ansari, R.) - Still actively part of Human Systems R & T at GRC

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