3D Spaceflight Flow Explorer

OpenFOAM Navier-Stokes Pathline & Thermal Simulator

Hardware Architecture

Plant Canopy Porous Drag & LAI

Seedling (LAI 0.5) Vegetative (LAI 2.2) Mature (LAI 4.0)

BRIC-LED Diurnal Photoperiod (4h ON / 4h OFF)

Gravitational Regime

Airflow Operational Regime

Live Aerodynamic & Thermal Telemetry

Flow Driver / Inlet:Dual 0.60 m/s Slots

Canopy / Plate Vel:0.600 m/s

Boundary Layer ($\delta_{ext}$):1.63 mm

Conductance ($g_{bl}$):1.071 mol/m²s

Transpiration ($E$):4.82 mmol/m²s

Plate Headspace $O_2$:Optimal (>20%)

Ethylene ($\text{C}_2\text{H}_4$):<0.05 ppm

Condensation Onset:Clear (>38 h)

Flight Study Ref:NASA PH-01/02

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NASA Advanced Biological Research System (ABRS)

Single middeck locker payload holding 6 square Petri dishes in 2 tiers of 3. Forced air sweeps downward past micropore tape seams (Supply) into catalytic scrubbers (Scrubber), mitigating hypoxia and ethylene stress (OSD-7 / OSD-16).