International Heat and Mass Transfer Experiments on the 48th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign of March 2008

Abstract

Aircraft parabolic flights provide repetitively up to 20 s of reduced gravity during ballistic flight manoeuvres and are used to conduct short microgravity investigations in Physical and Life Sciences and Technology, to test instrumentation and to train astro-

The Effect of Gravity and Shear Stress on a Liquid Film Driven in a Horizontal Minichannel at Local Heating

“…Numerical investigations are performed under normal gravity, microgravity and hypergravity conditions similar to the parabolic flights conditions. Parabolic flights provide repeated periods of approximately 20 s of reduced gravity g ∼ 0.01 g 0 preceded and followed by 20 s of hypergravity (up to 1.8 g 0 ), where g 0 = −9.81 m/s 2 Pletser et al 2008). Calculations are carried out for various values of heat flux on the heating element.…”

Unmanned aerial vehicle appliance in microgravity research / Bepiločio orlaivio naudojimas mikrogravitaciniams tyrimams

“…Equally important, if pitch angle is increased, negative load on aircraft and research samples during pull-up stage of parabola increases (Pletser et al 2003).…”

European parabolic flight campaigns with Airbus ZERO-G: Looking back at the A300 and looking forward to the A310

“…4) from Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, ESA, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Danemark, Ireland, Austria, Greece, Norway, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg, Brazil and China (see e.g. Pletser et al, 2008b).…”