Tag Archives: microgravity
Discharge of a silo in hypergravity
Last year, we performed a series of experiments to investigate the flow of an assembly of non-cohesive spherical grains in high gravity conditions. We studied the flow of beads out of a silo that was loaded in one of the … Continue reading
Zero free parameter for zero gravity
When grains are continuously driven in a closed cell, inelastic collisions may lead the system into a dense cluster which coexists with a granular gas. Although observed 12 years ago in microgravity experiments [1], the dynamical clustering of grains was … Continue reading
News from the ISS
The GRASP is participating to the FOAM-S experiment [1,2], which aims to study the influence of microgravity on the foamability of liquid solutions. The experiment benefited from a flight opportunity to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009 during the stay … Continue reading
56th Parabolic Flight Campaign
The GRASP is involved in the development of the FOAM-C instrument for studying bubbles and foams on the International Space Station (ISS), within the ESA MAP project entitled “Hydrodynamics of wet foams“. The new equipment is currently tested in parabolic … Continue reading
