Heat Flow and Convection Experiments aboard Apollo 17
- 17 January 1975
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 187 (4172) , 165-167
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.187.4172.165
Abstract
Experiments conducted aboard Apollo 17 by astronaut Ronald E. Evans showed that in uncovered liquids convection driven by surface tension can occur at lower temperature gradients in low gravity (about 10-8g) than in 1g. In completely confined fluids (no liquid-gas interface) vibrations caused by spacecraft and astronaut movements increased the heat transfer considerably over the pure conduction case.Keywords
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