A preliminary study of a fluid science laboratory for spacestation (Colombus). Final report. Part 2. Survey of equipment and hardware items

A preliminary study of a fluid science laboratory for spacestation (Colombus). Final report. Part 2. Survey of equipment and hardware items

Martinez, I.
da Riva, I.
Martinez-Val, R.
Vreeburg, J.P.B.
Sanz, A.
Huijser, R.H.
Visser, F.B.

National Aerospace Laboratory NLR

1987-01-30

The present part 2 of the Final Report presents an inventory of techniques that are likely to find application in the Fluid Science Laboratory. Part 1 of the Report contains a survey of the scientific disciplines that are indicated to provide investigations for the FSL. In the following Part 3, a preliminary synthesis of the content matter of the first two parts is presented, as a possible outline of an actual FSL. Some special attention has been given to the handling and diagnosis of fluids that are appreciably hotter than the 60 °C or so encountered in the Fluid Physics Module and other fluid science facilities. This effort reflects the growing demand for realtime field mapping techniques that can be used in opaque liquids such as metallic melts. The present lack of methods conveniently demarcates the nature of the FSL from that of a Metallurgy laboratory. Other differences exist between a FSL and related laboratories for combustion or life sciences research. Nevertheless, important commonalities exist in requirements and equipment for support, control and data handling. The results of earlier design studies for fluid science facilities have been compared and assessed. The scale of the FSL and the accommodation in a permanent space habitat imposes important additional design considerations, but earlier diagnosis and conditioning techniques are instructive. However, it is to be noted that the accuracy requirements for FSL experiments can be expected to be much tighter than for earlier investigations

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