Reduced gravity environments can be simulated on Earth using neutral buoyancy and parabolic flight
Multiple studies demonstrate that reduced gravity environments can be successfully simulated or investigated on Earth using parabolic flights and neutral buoyancy techniques.
The retrieved papers consistently reference and utilize parabolic flight profiles and neutral buoyancy as terrestrial methods or analogs to study phenomena under reduced gravity or microgravity conditions.
T. Oka, Y. Abe, Y. H. Mori, A. Nagashima. Pool Boiling of n-Pentane, CFC-113, and Water Under Reduced Gravity: Parabolic Flight Experiments With a Transparent Heater. 1995. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2822537
Paper [0] utilizes aircraft performing parabolic flights to study pool boiling under reduced gravity conditions.
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Nils-Alexander Bury, Michael Jenkin, Robert S. Allison, Rainer Herpers, Laurence R. Harris. Vection underwater illustrates the limitations of neutral buoyancy as a microgravity analog. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-023-00282-3
Paper [1] discusses neutral buoyancy as a long-standing analog used to simulate aspects of microgravity on Earth.
L.L. Schramm, F. Wassmuth, E.N. Stasiuk, D. Hart, J.C. Legros, N.N. Smirnov. Capillary Flow in Porous Media Under Highly Reduced Gravity Investigated Through High Altitude Parabolic Aircraft Flights and NASA Space Shuttle Flight. 2003. https://doi.org/10.2118/2003-165
Paper [3] utilizes high-altitude parabolic aircraft flights to investigate capillary flow under highly reduced gravity.
Ken-ichi Yoshida, Takahisa Kato, Toshiharu Oka, Yoshiyuki Abe, Yasuhiko H. Mori, Akira Nagashima. Parabolic Flight Experiments of Spray Cooling With Water and FC-72 Under Reduced and Elevated Gravity. 1997. https://doi.org/10.1115/imece1997-0965
Paper [5] employs parabolic flight experiments to study spray cooling under reduced gravity conditions.
Pentinat-Llurba H, Whittle RS, Robin A, Reinarz C, Laygo DB, Rao R, Herrmann M, Harrison N, Harrison C, Vera-Trallero I, Puente B, García-Alonso S, Lanéelle D, Harrison ML, Allen J, Seidler RD, Flores O, Diaz-Artiles A. Case study: dose-dependent internal jugular vein response to lower body negative pressure in microgravity quantified by the flow directionality index.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00018.2026
Paper [8] conducts physiological experiments during parabolic flight to evaluate responses in true microgravity conditions.
Erik L. Seedhouse. The development of a neutral buoyancy and virtual reality training system for training suborbital scientists. 2024. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4014297/v1
Paper [11] evaluates neutral buoyancy as a training analog environment for simulating microgravity task performance.
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