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Studies of earth simulation experiments
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Hart, J. E. |
| Copyright Year | 1976 |
| Description | The low gravity environment of earth orbit offers the potential for performing experiments involving baroclinic Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) on spherical surfaces. These experiments in turn have the potential for providing deeper understanding of large scale planetary and solar circulations. However, to perform these experiments, one requires an experimental technique whereby a radially directed body force can be generated to simulate a radial gravitational force field. One viable technique is the use of dielectric fluids with temperature dependent dielectric permittivity in a radially directed electric field. Application of the Boussinesq approximation to the equations of motion for this system and restrictions on the size of certain electrodynamic terms in the energy equations yields a set of equations which are analogous to the equations of motions of geophysical systems like the earth's atmosphere on term by term basis. The theoretical design of GFD experiments for performance in earth orbit are described along with results of preliminary tests of a prototype. |
| File Size | 2536308 |
| Page Count | 73 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19760026729 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t87h6ch3b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1976-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Baroclinity Earth Atmosphere Fluid Dynamics Geophysics Gravitational Fields Force Distribution Environment Simulation Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
