Victoria Lapuerta

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: 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: This equation shows that the stabilizing effect of vibration is like that of surface tension, and is used to analyze the linear stability of the flat state, the local bifurcation at the instability threshold and some global existence and stability properties concerning the steady states without dry spots.

TL;DR: The TEPiM experiment was conducted during the 65th ESA Parabolic Flight campaign as mentioned in this paper, where the phase change of phase change materials (PCMs) in weightlessness was analyzed.

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.