Turbulent velocity spectra in superfluid flows
Abstract
We present velocity spectra measured in three cryogenic liquid H4e steady flows: grid and wake flows in a pressurized wind tunnel capable of achieving mean velocities up to 5 m/s at temperatures above and below the superfluid transition, down to 1.7 K, and a "chunk" turbulence flow at 1.55 K, capable of sustaining mean superfluid velocities up to 1.3 m/s. Depending on the flows, the stagnation pressure probes used for anemometry are resolving from one to two decades of the inertial regime of the turbulent cascade. We do not find any evidence that the second-order statistics of turbulence below the superfluid transition differ from the ones of classical turbulence, above the transition.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3504375
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1202.0643
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhFl...22l5102S
- Keywords:
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- anemometry;
- superfluid helium-4;
- turbulence;
- wakes;
- wind tunnels;
- 47.27.er;
- 67.25.dj;
- 47.37.+q;
- 67.25.dp;
- 47.27.-i;
- 47.27.eb;
- Spectral methods;
- Superfluid transition and critical phenomena;
- Hydrodynamic aspects of superfluidity;
- quantum fluids;
- Films;
- Turbulent flows;
- Statistical theories and models;
- Physics - Fluid Dynamics;
- Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 9 figures