OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Microgravity Science and Technology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Additive Manufacturing Under Lunar Gravity and Microgravity	24
Development of Control Algorithms for the Orbital Motion of a Small Technological Spacecraft with a Shadow Portion of the Orbit	20
Numerical Analysis of Droplet Motion over a Flat Plate Due to Surface Acoustic Waves	16
Analysis of the Significance of the Influence of Various Components of the Disturbance from a Temperature Shock on the Level of Microaccelerations in the Internal Environment of a Small Spacecraft	16
Exploration of Direct-Ink-Write 3D Printing in Space: Droplet Dynamics and Patterns Formation in Microgravity	16
Stability of Thermocapillary Flow in High-Prandtl-Number Liquid Bridges Exposed to a Coaxial Gas Stream	15
Surface Properties of Liquid Al-Ni Alloys: Experiments Vs Theory	15
Liquid Sloshing in Partially Filled Capsule Storage Tank Undergoing Gravity Reduction to Low/Micro-Gravity Condition	15
Giant Fluctuations Induced by Thermal Diffusion in Complex Liquids	14
Acoustic Manipulation of Dense Nanorods in Microgravity	14
Heat Flux Density Evaluation in the Region of Contact Line of Drop on a Sapphire Surface Using Infrared Thermography Measurements	13
Dynamic Behavior in a Storage Tank in Reduced Gravity Using Dynamic Contact Angle Method	12
Phase Separation in Porous Media Integrated Capillary Channels	12
Machine Learning for 3D Particle Tracking in Granular Gases	11
Phenomenological Investigation of Drop Manipulation Using Surface Acoustic Waves	11
Comparison of Two Gas Injection Methods for Generating Bubbles in a T-junction	11
Effects of Gravitational Force and Surface Orientation on the Jumping Velocity and Energy Conversion Efficiency of Coalesced Droplets	11
Symmetry Breaking in Large Columnar Frozen Wave Patterns in Weightlessness	10
Particle Accumulation Structures in a 5 cSt Silicone Oil Liquid Bridge: New Data for the Preparation of the JEREMI Experiment	10
Flame Extinction of Spherical PMMA in Microgravity: Effect of Fuel Diameter and Conduction	10
Experimental Investigation of Single Bubble Nucleate Boiling in Microgravity	10
Construction of the Criterion for Using a Two-dimensional Thermal Conductivity Model to Describe the Stress–strain State of a Thin Plate Under the Thermal Shock	10
Heat Loss Analysis of Flow Boiling Experiments Onboard International Space Station with Unclear Thermal Environmental Conditions (1st Report: Subcooled Liquid Flow Conditions at Test Section Inlet)	10
Numerical and Experimental Study of the Squeezing-to-Dripping Transition in a T-Junction	10
Tsinghua University Freefall Facility (TUFF): A 2.2 Second Drop Tunnel for Microgravity Research	9

Electrohydrodynamic Instability of a Cylindrical Interface: Effect of the Buoyancy Thermo-Capillary in Porous Media	9
Experimental Investigation on Droplet Deformation and Breakup under Uniform DC Electric Field	9
Heat Loss Analysis of Flow Boiling Experiments Onboard International Space Station with Unclear Thermal Environmental Conditions (2nd Report: Liquid-vapor Two-phase Flow Conditions at Test Section Inl	9
Double-Diffusive Buoyancy and Marangoni Convection in a Hybrid Nanofluid Filled Cylindrical Porous Annulus	9
Titanium-Water Heat Pipe Radiators for Space Fission Power System Thermal Management	9
Numerical Simulation Analysis of Liquid Transportation in Capsule-type Vane Tank under Microgravity	8
Comparison of Mixing and Displacement Ventilation under Limited Space Air Stability Conditions in a Space Capsule	8
Numerical Study on the Liquid-Liquid Interface Evolution during Droplet Coalescence	8
Lattice Boltzmann Study on Influence of Gravitational Acceleration on Pool Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer	8
Global Linear Stability Analysis of Thermo-solutal Marangoni Convection in a Liquid Bridge Under Zero Gravity	8
On the Monitoring of the Vibratory Environment of DCMIX4 Campaign. Preliminary Results	7
Axisymmetric Ferrofluid Oscillations in a Cylindrical Tank in Microgravity	7
Modeling and Micro-vibration Control of Flexible Cable for Disturbance-Free Payload Spacecraft	7
Development of a New Microgravity Experiment Facility with Electromagnetic Launch	7
Influence of High Frequency Vertical Vibrations on Convective Regimes in a Closed Cavity at Normal and Low Gravity Conditions	7
A Similarity Solution for Natural Convection Flow near a Vertical Plate with Thermal Radiation	7
Performance Assessment of Ultrasonic Waves for Bubble Control in Cryogenic Fuel Tanks	7
Numerical Investigation of Successively Nucleating Bubbles During Subcooled Flow Boiling of FC-72 in Microgravity	7
Novel Method for Surface Tension Measurement: the Drop-Bounce Method	7
Oscillation Characteristics of Single Droplet Impacting Vertically on Smooth Surfaces Using Volume of Fluid Method	7
Experimental Study on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of Ammonia in Microchannels	7
Forced Axisymmetric Oscillations of a Drop, which is Clamped Between Different Surfaces	7
High Accuracy and Multi-Target Acquisition, Pointing and Tracking under Satellite Micro-Vibrations	7
Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Collision Frictional Properties of a Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) Film in Microgravity Environment	6
Evaluation of Free-Floating Droplet Acceleration in ISS Droplet Combustion Experiments	6
Academician Wen-Rui Hu — Eminent Pioneer and Prominent Leader of Microgravity Science in China	6
Optimization Analysis of Microgravity Experimental Facility for the Deployable Structures Based on Force Balance Method	6
Thermal Performance of an Axially Grooved Heat Pipe Subjected to Multiple Heating Sources	6
Thermocapillary Convection Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Graphene Nanoplatelet Based Nanofluid Under Microgravity	6
Simulation of Primary Film Atomization in Prefilming Air-assisted Atomizer Using Volume-of-Fluid Method	6
Quasi-Adiabatic External State Preparation of Ultracold Atoms in Microgravity	6
Effects of Microorganisms on Drop Formation in Microgravity During a Parabolic Flight with Residual Gravity and Jitter	6
Dynamics of Two-liquid System at Rotation and Vibration with Equal Frequencies	5
Coherent Particle Structures in High-Prandtl-Number Liquid Bridges	5
The Interaction of Thermal Vibrational and Thermal Gravitational Mechanisms of Convection Onset in a Fluid-Porous Layer	5
Moderate Prandtl Number Nanofluid Thermocapillary Convection Instability in Rectangular Cavity	5
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Thermal Convection in Rotating Horizontal Annulus	5
Disintegration of Free-falling Liquid Droplets, Jets, and Arrays in Air	5
Mechanisms of the Effect of Simulated Microgravity on the Cytotoxicity of NK Cells Following the DNA Methylation of NKG2D and the Expression of DAP10	5
A Hysteresis of Supercritical Water Convection in an Open Elongated Cavity at a Fixed Vertical Heat Flux	5
Microtubules and Vimentin Fiber Stability during Parabolic Flights	5
Experimental Investigation of Large Droplet Impact with Application to SLD Icing	4
Effect of Substrate Microstructure on Thermocapillary Flow and Heat Transfer of Nanofluid Droplet on Heated Wall	4
Dynamics of an Electrified Multi-layer Film Down a Porous Incline	4
3D Clinorotation Affects Drug Sensitivity of Human Ovarian Cancer Cells	4
The Effects of Acceleration Forces on Cognitive Functions	4
Numerical study on the effect of gravity levels on apparent viscosity of bubbly suspensions	4
Effect of Horizontal Vibrations on Thermo-Solutocapillary Convection and Free Surface of Liquid Bridge	4
The FixBox: Hardware to Provide on-Orbit Fixation Capabilities to the EMCS on the ISS	4
Numerical Study on the Heat Transfer Characteristics of Axially Grooved Heat Pipe Assisted by Gravity	4

On the Space Thermal Destratification in a Partially Filled Hydrogen Propellant Tank by Jet Injection	4
The Assessment Problem of Microaccelerations at the Experimental Sample of the Small Spacecraft “AIST” after the Battery Degradation and the Method of its Solution	4
Investigation on Transient Characteristics of Heat Pipe with Re-Entrant Grooved Wick	4
Aspect Ratio Dependence of Thermocapillary Flow Instability of Moderate-Prandtl Number Fluid in Annular Pools Heated from Inner Cylinder	4
Numerical Investigation of the Effects of High Reynolds and Marangoni Numbers on Thermocapillary Droplet Migration	4
Numerical Simulations of Arm-locking for Taiji Space Gravitational Waves Detection	4
Heat Transfer and Thermocapillary Flow of a Double-Emulsion Droplet Heated Using an Infrared Laser by the Photothermal Effect: a Numerical Study	4
Experimental Study of the Processes of Formation, Drift and Levitation of Vapor–Gas Bubbles in Water Containing Surfactant Under the Action of Ultrasound	4
A Numerical Study on Condensation Heat Transfer Characteristics of R134a in Microchannel Under Varying Gravity Conditions	4