The objective of TIPMPS is to confirm Korteweg’s model that stresses could be induced in miscible fluids by concentration gradients, causing phenomena that would appear to be the same as with immiscible fluids. The existence of this phenomenon in miscible fluids will open up a new area of study for materials science.
Many polymer processes involving miscible monomer and polymer systems could be affected by fluid flow and so this work could help understand miscible polymer processing, not only in microgravity, but also on earth.
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