Physical Science Under Microgravity: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hu, Wenrui (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kang, Qi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Research for Development,
• Subjects: Space sciences.; Manufactures.; Thermodynamics.; Materials science.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

This book presents the physical science experiments in a space microgravity environment conducted on board the SJ-10 recoverable satellite, which was launched on April 6th, 2016 and recovered on April 18th, 2016. The experiments described were selected from ~100 proposals from various institutions...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chinese recoverable satellite
• Space Experiment of Evaporation and Fluid Interfacial Effects
• Granular Clustering Studied in the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite
• Thermal dynamics of growing bubble and heat transfer in microgravity pool boiling
• Space Microgravity Experimental Study on Thermocapillary Convection in an Open Annular Pool
• Study on the Colloidal Assembling in the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite
• The influence of gravity on inorganic liquid crystal
• SCCO: Thermodiffusion for the oil and gas industry
• Ignition and combustion characteristics of overloaded wire insulation under weakly buoyancy or microgravity environments
• Coal combustion in microgravity
• Ignition and Burning of Solid Materials in microgravity
• Material Science Experiments in Space.