THERMO-CAPILLARY TWO-PHASE FLOW OF A BINARY MIXTURE DROP EXHIBITING A MISCIBILITY GAP

摘要

The present paper describes breadboard experimental research activities and numerical simulations carried out at MARS center for the preparation of an experiment on the thermo-solutal-capillary migration of a dissolving drop, composed by a liquid binary mixture having a miscibility gap. The experiment will be carried out onboard of the sounding rocket MAXUS 5, by re-using the INEX-MAM facility already flown during TEXUS 34 mission. The main goal of the analysis is to clarify if and how drop migration is affected by dissolution.