THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA MODELS AND EXPERIMENTS IN REDUCED GRAVITYTHE PROPOSED PROGRAM WILL CONSIST OF FOUR MAJOR ELEMENTS: CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL NON-CONTACT METHODS FOR MEASURING THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES INCLUDING USING ELECTROSTATIC LEVITATION IN REDUCED GRAVITY; APPLICATION OF THESE METHODS TO MATERIALS OF INTEREST TO INDUSTRY AND THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; APPLICATION OF THE MEASURED PROPERTIES TO PRODUCE ACCURATE MODELS OF FLUID FLOW AND HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN THE LEVITATED SAMPLES; AND APPLICATION OF THE MEASURED PROPERTIES AND MODELS TO TEST THEORIES ABOUT THE EFFECT OF PROCESSING ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAMILY OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTALS. THE PROPOSED ELEMENTS PRIMARILY CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESEARCH EMPHASIS 1: THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS WITH SUPPORTING CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH EMPHASIS 2: MATERIALS PROCESSES AFFECTING MICROSTRUCTURE COMPOSITION AND THE RESULTANT MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS. THE PROPOSED ELEMENTS VARY IN SCOPE FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS WHICH ARE BROADLY APPLICABLE TO MEASUREMENT OF THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES SUCH AS DENSITY AND VISCOSITY TO MEASUREMENT OF THE PROPERTIES OF SAMPLES PROPOSED BY OUR TEAM AND OTHER INVESTIGATORS IN MATERIALSLAB SO MODELS FOR SPECIFIC EXPERIMENTS. THROUGH THE INSIGHT INTO THE TRANSPORT PHENOMENA INSIDE THE SAMPLES THE EXPERIMENT-SPECIFIC MODELS ENABLE EXPERIMENTS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE IMPOSSIBLE. SIMILAR MODELS ARE CURRENTLY IN USE FOR MODELENABLED EXPERIMENTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THE RESULTS OF THE MODEL-ENABLED EXPERIMENTS WILL ADVANCE THE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECT OF PROCESSING ON THE PROPERTIES OF NON-LINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTALS MOVING THEM CLOSER TO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION AND SALE HERE ON EARTH.