Visualization of Superfluid Helium Flow

Details Visualization of Superfluid Helium Flow Visualization of Superfluid Helium Flow

2008-08-14

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1977v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 7 figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Japan

Scientific paper

10.1143/JPSJ.77.111007

We discuss an experimental technique to visualize the motion in the bulk of superfluid $^4$He by tracking micron-sized solid hydrogen tracers. The behavior of the tracers is complex since they may be trapped by the quantized vortices while also interacting with the normal fluid via Stokes drag. We discuss the mechanism by which tracers may be trapped by quantized vortices as well as the dependencies on hydrogen volume fraction, temperature, and flow properties. We apply this technique to study the dynamics of a thermal counterflow. Our observations serve as a direct confirmation of the two-fluid model as well as a quantitative test of the normal fluid velocity dependence on the applied heat flux.

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