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Scientific paper
Feb 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989gsap.rept...59h&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA/MSFC FY88 Global Scale Atmospheric Processes Research Program Review p 59-63 (SEE N9
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Atmospheric Circulation, Computerized Simulation, Data Processing, Geophysical Fluid Flow Cells, Mathematical Models, Planetary Waves, Buoyancy, Flow Visualization, Real Time Operation, Schlieren Photography, Space Commercialization, Spaceborne Experiments
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The continuous low-g environment of the orbiting space shuttle provided a setting for conducting geophysical fluid model experiments with a completely consistent representation of sphericity and the resultant radial gravity found on astrogeophysical objects. This is possible because in zero gravity an experiment can be constructed that has its own radial buoyancy forces. The dielectric forces in a liquid, which are linearly dependent on fluid temperature, give rise to an effectively radial buoyancy force when a radial electrostatic field is applied. The Geophysical Fluid Flow Cell (GFFC) experiment is an implementation of this idea in which fluid is contained between two rotating hemispheres that are differentially heated and stressed with a large ac voltage. The GFFC flew on Spacelab 3 in May 1985. Data in the form of global Schlieren images of convective patterns were obtained for a large variety of configurations. These included situations of rapid rotation (large Taylor numbers), low rotation, large and small thermal forcing, and situations with applied meridional temperature gradients. The analysis and interpretation of the GFFC-85 data are being conducted. Improvements were developed to the GFFC instrument that will allow for real-time (TV) display of convection data and for near-real-time interactive experiments. These experiments, on the transition to global turbulence, the breakdown of rapidly rotating convective planforms and other phenomena, are scheduled to be carried out on the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) aboard the shuttle in June 1990.
Hart John E.
Toomre Juri
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