Stochastic Modeling of the Residual Acceleration Field in a Microgravity Environment

摘要

We discuss fluid flows induced by thehigh-frequency components of the residual acceleration field onboard spacecraft (g-jitter) on representative experimental configurations.We study the statistics of g-jitter time series data from theNASA SL-J mission (SAMS-258), and discuss a recently introducedstochastic model of g-jitter. The examples studied are chosen to highlightintrinsically stochastic effects of g-jitter. They include free surfaceresonances, cavity flow, and inertial Brownian motion in suspensions. Thelatter is relevant for coarsening experiments in solid-liquid mixtures.