Jacobo Rodríguez

TL;DR: The innovation activities performed in the field of space education since the academic year 2009/10 at the Technical University of Madrid, in collaboration with the Spanish User Support and Operations Center (E-USOC), the center assigned by the European Space Agency (ESA) in Spain to support the operations of scientific experiments on board the International Space Station.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on thermodiffusion experiments conducted on the International Space Station ISS during fall 2016, where the SODI instrument and the DCMIX experiments have proven reliable and robust, allowing to extract meaningful data even in case of unforeseen laser instabilities.

TL;DR: The TEPiM experiment as mentioned in this paper investigated the potential of thermal Marangoni convection for heat transfer enhancement in Phase Change Materials (PCMs) in weightlessness, where the large melting/solidification timescale compromises their performance as thermal control devices.

TL;DR: In this article, an extensive numerical investigation of the heat transport enhancement achieved by the thermocapillary effect during the melting of phase change materials in microgravity is presented, where the phase change transition is analyzed for the high Prandtl number paraffin n-octadecane in a two-dimensional rectangular container subjected to isothermal conditions along the lateral boundaries.

TL;DR: The empirical experience described here confirms the positive impact of active learning methods and indicates the key factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic, in the motivation of aerospace engineering students.