Zhijun Ye

The annular flow payload is among the first batch of space science experimental projects carried out on the Fluid Physics Rack of the China Space Station. This paper provides a detailed introduction to the development of the payload, ground validation, and in orbit experiments. The payload, sized 320 mm × 200 mm × 220 mm, includes an annular flow model and supports supply (24 V, 12 V, and 5 V), communication, and data transmission. A multi-functional heating column in the annular flow model was designed, allowing for the column to operate in fixed, rotating, and lifting scenarios. In the first round, 96 sets of space experiments covering volume ratio ranges from 0.45 to 1.06 were carried out. The annular flow liquid surface state, temperature oscillation, and infrared temperature field evolution were obtained. Mode decomposition shows the oscillatory convection of the m = 4 travelling wave, and contains m = 3, m = 6, and m = 8 waves.

In this paper, the coupling effect of multiphysical fields of droplet migration is deeply studied by constructing a physical model of droplet migration with multiphysical fields. Digital holographic interferometry and particle image velocimetry are used to simultaneously measure the temperature and velocity fields of the mother liquor in the process of droplet migration for the first time. Due to the advancements of measuring, the zero-velocity region is also in the region where the thermal wake appears, four vortexes appear in the droplet migration and the off-axis behavior of double-droplet migration is found. The aim of this work is to analyze the coupling relationship of multiphysical fields, so as to reveal the physical laws of thermocapillary migration of single droplet and multiple droplets with the same phase and heterophase and to study the driving mechanism of the thermocapillary force and the flow of the mother liquor.