Liquid Transfer in Microgravity

University of Alabama in Huntsville

The University of Alabama in Huntsville projects involve two teams, or eight fliers and two experiments. Both of these experiments are proposed as free floating experiments in order to obtain a precision reduced gravity platform. Flight qualified accelerometers including a prototype model will be operated to record the quality of the reduced gravity environment.

The liquid transfer experiment addresses design issues such as the role of surface tension devices (baffles) in effective liquid transfer, the gas ingestion phenomena, the rate of bubble formation in transistion from high to low gravity, the distribution of liquid in reduced gravity environments, and the expulsion efficiency of liquid inside the containers. The features of the design include a liquid transfer device similar to the apparatus flow on Apollo 14.

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