Explore: Surface Tension Driven Convection

prisms or spirals. The convective Bénard cells are not unique and will usually appear only in the surface tension driven convection. In general the solutions

Crystal Growth Furnace (CGF); Drop Physics Module (DPM); Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiments (STDCE); Zeolite Crystal Growth (ZCG); Protein

Ostrach and Yasuhiro Kamotani led spacelab projects entitled surface tension driven convection experiment (STDCE) aboard the Space Shuttle STS-50 and the

distribution of static pressure to as complicated as multiphase flow driven by surface tension. Generally, application to specific problems begins with some

vary depending on crust types. Plate tectonics is driven by convection cells in the mantle. Convection cells are the result of heat generated by the radioactive

unless disturbed (except near solids dipping into them, where surface tension distorts the surface in a region called the meniscus). In a free liquid that is

formation, and capillary flow dominance. The absence of buoyancy-driven convection alters mixing processes and phase separations, necessitating alternative

the large scale convection cells) or secondary. The secondary mechanisms view plate motion driven by friction between the convection currents in the asthenosphere

Valentin Boussinesq) is used in the field of buoyancy-driven flow (also known as natural convection). It ignores density differences except where they appear

frequencies between 3 Hz and .03 Hz). Shorter waves are also affected by surface tension and are called gravity–capillary waves and (if hardly influenced by