Environmental Portraits of Interns for CL Magazine

Grace Gaskin, an Aerospace Flight Systems Engineer Trainee, was sworn in as a civil servant in September 2017. After serving for 6 years in the U.S. Army she enrolled at Case Western Reserve University and will graduate in May 2018 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. As a Pathways Intern one of the many projects she has worked on is the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiments (FBCE). The proposed research aims to develop an integrated two-phase flow boiling/condensation facility for the International Space Station (ISS) to serve as a primary platform for obtaining two-phase flow and heat transfer data in microgravity. By comparing the microgravity data against those obtained in Earth's gravity, it will be possible to ascertain the influence of body force on two-phase transport phenomena in pursuit of mechanistic models as well as correlations, and to help determine the minimum flow criteria to ensure gravity independent flow boiling and condensation.