Flight Definition

Research

California
Dr. John R. Marshall
NASA Ames Research
Center
Moffett Field, CA
"Microgravity
Experiments to
Evaluate Electrostatic
Forces in Controlling
Cohesion and Adhesion
of Granular Materials"

Dr. Tony Maxworthy

University of Southern
California
Los Angeles, CA
"The Dynamics of
Miscible Interfaces: A
Space Flight
Experiment"

Dr. Seth J. Putterman

University of
California, Los
Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
"Diffusing Light
Photography of
Containerless Ripple
Turbulence"

New York
Dr. Michel Y. Louge
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
"Studies of Gas -
Particle Interactions
in a Microgravity Flow
Cell"

Pennsylvania
Dr. Arjun G. Yodh
University of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
"Colloidal Assembly in
Entropically Driven,
Low-Volume-Fraction
Binary Particle
Suspensions"

Texas
Dr. Jamal Seyed-
Yagoobi
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX
"Thermal Control and
Enhancement of Heat
Transport Capacity of
Cryogenic Capillary
Pumped Loops and Heat
Pipes with
Electrohydrodynamics"

Ground-based Research

Arizona
Dr. K. R. Sridhar
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
"Modeling of Transport
Processes in a Solid
Oxide Electrolyzer
Generating Oxygen on
Mars"

California
Dr. John F. Brady
California Institute
of Technology
Pasadena, CA
"Inertial Effects in
Suspension Dynamics"

Dr. Van P. Carey

University of
California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
"Marangoni Effects on
Near-Bubble Microscale
Transport During
Boiling of Binary
Fluid Mixtures"

Dr. John K. Eaton

Stanford University
Stanford, CA
"Attenuation of Gas
Turbulence by a Nearly
Stationary Dispersion
of Fine Particles"

Dr. Edgar Knobloch

University of
California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
"Weakly Nonlinear
Description of
Parametric
Instabilities in
Vibrating Flows"
Dr. L. Gary Leal
University of
California, Santa
Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
�Interaction Forces
and the Flow-Induced
Coalescence of Drops
and Bubbles�

Dr. Robert L. Powell

University of
California, Davis
Davis, CA
"Experimental Studies
of Multiphase
Materials Using
Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR) and
NMR Imaging"

Dr. Constantine
Pozrikidis
University of
California, San Diego
LaJolla, CA
"Dynamics of
Accelerated
Interfaces: Parametric
Excitation and Fluid
Sloshing in Closed
Containers and Open
Tanks"

Dr. Theofanis
Theofanous
University of
California, Santa
Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
"The Pool Boiling
Crisis From Flat
Plates: Mechanism(s)
and Enhancement"

Colorado
Dr. Joshua E. Colwell
University of Colorado
at Boulder
Boulder, CO
"Dusty Plasma Dynamics
Near Surfaces in
Space"

Dr. Robert H. Davis

University of Colorado
at Boulder
Boulder, CO
"Thermocapillary-
Induced Phase
Separation of
Dispersed Systems with
Coalescence"

Connecticut
Dr. Robert E. Apfel
Yale University
New Haven, CT
"Scientific Studies
and Technological
Potential of Acousto-
Electrically Generated
Drop or Particle
Clusters and Arrays"

District of Columbia
Dr. Frank J. Giovane
Naval Research
Laboratory
Washington, DC
"Definition of Dust
Aggregation and
Concentration System
for the Microgravity
Space Environment"

Iowa
Dr. John A. Goree
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
"Plasma Dust
Crystallization"

Illinois
Dr. Hassan Aref
University of Illinois
at Urbana
Urbana, IL
"Fluid Physics of Foam
Evolution and Flow"

Dr. Hermann Riecke

Northwestern
University
Evanston, IL
"Complex Dynamics in
Marangoni Convection
with Rotation"

Massachusetts
Dr. R. Glynn Holt
Boston University
Boston, MA
"Sonoluminescence in
Space: the Critical
Role of Buoyancy in
Stability and Emission
Mechanisms"

Dr. R. Glynn Holt

Boston University
Boston, MA
"Rheology of Foam Near
the Order-Disorder
Transition"

Dr. Gareth H. McKinley

Massachussets
Institute of
Technology
Cambridge, MA
"An Interferometric
Investigation of
Contact Line Dynamics
in Spreading Polymer
Melts and Solutions"

Maryland
Dr. Nail A. Gumerov
Dynaflow, Inc.
Fulton, MD
"Determination of the
Accommodation
Coefficient Using
Vapor/Gas Bubble
Dynamics in an
Acoustic Field in
Microgravity
Conditions"

Dr. Hasan N. Oguz

Johns Hopkins
University
Baltimore, MD
"Production and
Removal of Gas Bubbles
in Microgravity"

Michigan
Dr. Ronald Larson
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Microscopic
Visualization of Fluid
Flow in Evaporating
Droplets and Electro-
Osmotic Flows"

Dr. Gretar Tryggvason

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Computations of
Boiling in
Microgravity"

New Hampshire
Mr. Christopher
Crowley
Creare, Inc.
Hanover, NH
"Scaling of Multiphase
Flow Regimes and
Interfacial Behavior
at Microgravity"

New York
Dr. Andreas Acrivos
The City College of
CUNY
New York, NY
"The Synergism of
Electrorheological
Response,
Dielectrophoresis, and
Shear-Induced
Diffusion in Flowing
Suspensions"

Ohio
Dr. C. David Andereck
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
"Ultrasonic Thermal
Field Imaging of
Opaque Fluids"

Dr. Nengli Zhang

Ohio Aerospace
Institute
Cleveland, OH
"Enhanced Boiling on
Micro-Configured
Composite Surfaces
Under Microgravity
Conditions"

Dr. Gregory Zimmerli

NYMA, Inc.
Brookpark OH
"The Small-Scale
Structure of
Turbulence"

Pennsylvania
Dr. Daniel A. Hammer
University of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
"Engineering of Novel
Biocolloidal
Suspensions"

Dr. Paul J. Sides

Carnegie Mellon
University
Pittsburgh, PA
"Lateral Motion of
Particles and Bubbles
Caused by Secondary
Phoretic Flows Near a
Solid Interface"

Dr. Paul J. Sides

Carnegie Mellon
University
Pittsburgh, PA
"The Role of
Electroosmosis in
Self-Ordering
Electrophoretically
Deposited Films"

Virginia
Dr. Anil Deane
George Mason
University
Fairfax, VA
"Spectral-Element
Simulations of Thermal
Convection in a
Rotating Hemispherical
Shell With Radial
Gravity and Comparison
With Space-Laboratory
Experiments"

Washington
Dr. Philip L. Marston
Washington State
University
Pullman, WA
"Single Bubble
Sonoluminescence in
Low Gravity and
Optical Radiation
Pressure Positioning
of the Bubble"