Conference Program
 
Engineering Sciences For Space Exploration

August 21-26, 2005
Les Diablerets Conference Center
Les Diablerets, Switzerland

Chair:
G. Paul Neitzel

Vice Chair:
James A. Warren

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmGranular Media & Particulate Flow I
Discussion Leader: Pierre Evesque (Paris)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmJim Jenkins (Cornell)
"Collisional grain flow and particle segregation in reduced gravity"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmChristine Hrenya (Colorado)
"Impact of non-uniform size distribution on clustering in rapid granular flows"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmGranular Media & Particulate Flow II
Discussion Leader: Iwan Alexander (CWRU)
9:00 am - 10:00 amMasami Nakagawa (CSM)
"Behavior of lunar and martian dust"
10:00 amCoffee Break / Photo
10:30 am - 11:30 amJeff Morris (CCNY)
"Microstructure, constitutive behavior, and new avenues in concentrated suspension flows"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmMichel Louge (Cornell)
"The significance of granular flows to lunar and martian exploration"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmMultiphase Flow
Discussion Leader: Vemuri Balakotaiah (Houston)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmMark McCready (Notre Dame)
"Use of stability analyses to predict gas-liquid flow behavior in packed beds and pipes: What have we really learned?"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmAndrea Prosperetti (JHU)
"Vapor bubbles in flow and acoustic fields"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMultiphase Heat Transfer
Discussion Leader: Alcina Mendes (Imperial)
9:00 am - 10:00 amCila Herman (JHU)
"Bubble formation, detachment and coalescence in low gravity under the influence of electric fields"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amKambiz Vafai (UCR)
"Transport phenomena through porous media with emphasis on biomedical applications and control of flow and thermal disturbances inside fluidic cells"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmJohannes Straub (Munich)
"Boiling and bubble dynamics without gravitational effects and other external forces"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNanofluidics
Discussion Leader: Marc Smith (Georgia Tech)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmFlavio Noca (JPL)
"Fluid flow through carbon nanotube arrays"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmJoel Plawsky (RPI)
"Contact line dynamics: Control of fluid motion via nanoscale transport processes"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBiological Life Support Systems
Discussion Leader: Bradley Carpenter (NASA)
9:00 am - 10:00 amSybil Sharvelle (Purdue)
"Biological treatment of water and air for advanced life support"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amAndrew Jackson (TX Tech)
"Critical limitations and potential solutions for using biological reactors in closed-loop microgravity compatible water recycling systems"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmDani Or (Connecticut)
"Fluid behavior in unsaturated porous media under reduced gravity - implications for plant-based life support systems"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEnvironmental Monitoring
Discussion Leader: Gary Sayler (Tennessee)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmMarc Porter (Iowa State)
"Technologies for the rapid in-flight monitoring of spacecraft water quality"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmJames Lambert (NASA/JPL)
"New technologies for microbial water monitoring"
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmApplied Microfluidics / Heat Transfer
Discussion Leader: Rich Lueptow (Northwestern)
9:00 am - 10:00 amWard TeGrotenhuis (Battelle)
"Process intensification of gas-liquid processes for space applications"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amMark Weislogel (Portland St)
"Capillary macrofluidics for passive fluids management on spacecraft"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmJamal Yagoobi (IIT)
"Enhancement of heat transfer and mass transport in single-phase and two-phase flows with electrical fields in the presence and absence of gravity"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCryogenics
Discussion Leader: Daniel Beysens (CEA)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmLouis Salerno (Ames)
"Cryogenics for space exploration"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmMo Kassemi (NCMR)
"Role of transport phenomena in pressurization and pressure control of cryogenic storage tanks in 1g and microgravity"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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