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THIS STUDY ADDRESSES AN IMPORTANT PROBLEM FOR SPACE EXPLORATION IN WHICH FLOW BOILING AND CONDENSATION HEAT TRANSFER WILL BE UTILIZED. IF THE AIMS ARE ACHIEVED OUR KNOWLEDGE OF HOW DIFFERENT GRAVITY LEVELS INFLUENCE THE FLOW AND PHASE CHANGE HEAT TRANSFER PHENOMENA WILL BE ADVANCED. THE RESULTS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE THERMAL DESIGNS THAT WILL FUNCTION PROPERLY IN A GIVEN GRAVITY FIELD BE IT ON THE MOON OR MARS OR IN SPACE.THIS PERIOD WILL INCLUDE COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS BETWEEN PU-BTPFL AND NASA'S FBCE TECHNOLOGY TEAM LEADING TO FINAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE FBCE FACILITY AND INSERTION INTO THE FLUID INTEGRATED RACK (FIR) ONBOARD THE ISS. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD OF ACQUISITION OF BOTH EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND VIDEO RECORDS FOR BOTH FLOW BOILING AND CONDENSATION. THE PU-BTPFL TEAM WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY DEVELOP PREDICTIVE MECHANISTIC AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS AS WELL PLAY THE LEAD ROLE IN DISSEMINATING THE ISS EXPERIMENTAL DATA VIDEO RECORDS CORRELATIONS AND MODELS RESULTING FROM THE ISS EXPERIMENTS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND IN ARCHIVAL JOURNALS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HEAT TRANSFER AND MICROGRAVITY COMMUNITIES AT LARGE.

$795,000FY2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA

Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

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