Conjugate problems of transport phenomena under quasi-steady microaccelerations in realistic spaceflight.
A new model for spatial convective transport processes conjugated with the measured or calculated realistic quasi-steady microaccelerations is presented. Rotation around the mass center, including accelerated rotation, gravity gradient, and aerodynamical drag are taken into account. New results of the effect on mixing and concentration inhomogeneities of the elementary convective processes are presented. The mixing problem in spacecraft enclosures, concentration inhomogeneities due to convection induced by body forces in realistic spaceflight, and the coupling of this kind of convection with thermocapillary convection on the basis of this model are discussed.
Polezhaev
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Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. polezh@ipmnet.ru
Nikitin
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