Capillary Surfaces Shape - Stability - Dynamics, in Particular Under Weightlessness /

• Main Author: Langbein, Dieter W. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 178
• Subjects: Materials-Surfaces.; Thin films.; Fluids.; Space sciences.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

This book is devoted to interfaces between two fluids, that is, between a liquid and a gas (such as water and air) or between two liquids (such as water and oil). The main motivation for the book is twenty years of experimentation in the microgravity environment of space, and the associated theory....

Table of Contents:

• Interface Tension and Contact Angle
• Capillary Shape and Stability
• Stability Criteria
• Axisymmetric Liquid Columns at Rest and Under Rotation
• Liquid Zones
• Canthotaxis/Wetting Barriers/Pinning Lines
• Cylindrical Containers
• Liquid Surfaces in Polyhedral Containers
• Playing with Stability
• Liquid Penetration into Tubes and Wedges
• Oscillations of Liquid Columns
• Microgravity Experiments in Sounding Rockets, Spacelab and EURECA.