Effects of external vibrations (called g-jitter) on Marangoni convection in a liquid bridge were investigated on the International Space Station (ISS) and in ground-based experiments. In ISS, most dominant g-jitter frequency was noted to be ~110 Hz. ISS experiments suggested that
the surface vibrations were mainly affected by the aspect ratio (length/diameter ratio), but not the imposed temperature gradient. Liquid bridge surface vibrations agreed well with Ichikawa et al.’s model.
Ground-based experiments confirmed that increasing the volume ratio would cause the
resonance frequency to increase. When a temperature difference was imposed between the upper and lower disks, for constant aspect and volume ratios, the resonance frequency tended to increase with the decreasing temperature difference. Furthermore, the shift in the resonance
frequency due to a temperature difference, was found to be due to Marangoni convection and not due to reduced viscosity or surface tension of the fluid.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/31638 |
| Date | 04 January 2012 |
| Creators | Wickramasinghe, Dhanuka Navodya |
| Contributors | Kawaji, Masahiro |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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