Abstract
We discuss fluid flows induced by the high-frequency components of the residual acceleration field onboard spacecraft (g-jitter) on representative experimental configurations. We study the statistics of g-jitter time series data from the NASA SL-J mission (SAMS-258), and discuss a recently introduced stochastic model of g-jitter. The examples studied are chosen to highlight intrinsically stochastic effects of g-jitter. They include free surface resonances, cavity flow, and inertial Brownian motion in suspensions. The latter is relevant for coarsening experiments in solid-liquid mixtures.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 123-133 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Astrophysics and Space Science |
| Volume | 276 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2001 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are indebted to Wenbin Zhang, J. Ross Thomson and François Drolet for their contribution to the work that has been reviewed here. This research was supported by the Microgravity Science and Applications Division of the NASA under contract No. NAG3-1885, and also in part by the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, which is partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, contract No. DE-FC05-85ER25000. J.C. acknowledges financial support from DGICYT project PB96-1001-C02-02 (Spain).