Experimental investigation of the macroscopic flow of he II due to an oscillating grid in the zero temperature limit

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 2, 2004, Pages

  Nichol, H A ^a   Skrbek, L ^b   Hendry, P C ^a   McClintock, P V E ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DAMPING; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

COMPLEX FLOW PROPERTIES; FLOW PROPERTIES; INVISCID FLOW; MACROSCOPIC FLOW;

SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

EID: 41349114380     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.056307     Document Type: Article

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