Exploration of thermal counterflow in He II using particle tracking velocimetry
Abstract
Flow visualization using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and particularly particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) has been applied to thermal counterflow in He II for nearly two decades now, but the results remain difficult to interpret because tracer particle motion can be influenced by both the normal fluid and superfluid components of He II as well as the quantized vortex tangle. For instance, in one early experiment it was observed (using PTV) that tracer particles move at the normal fluid velocity vn, while in another it was observed (using PIV) that particles move at vn/2. Besides the different visualization methods, the range of applied heat flux investigated by these experiments differed by an order of magnitude. To resolve this apparent discrepancy and explore the statistics of particle motion in thermal counterflow, we apply the PTV method to a wide range of heat flux at a number of different fluid temperatures. In our analysis, we introduce a scheme for analyzing the velocity of particles presumably moving with the normal fluid separately from those presumably influenced by the quantized vortex tangle. Our results show that for lower heat flux there are two distinct peaks in the streamwise particle velocity probability density function (PDF), withmore »
- Authors:
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL (United States); Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1455435
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1456299; OSTI ID: 1657851
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-96ER40952
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Fluids (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-990X
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Superfluid Helium-4; Thermal Counterflow; Quantum Turbulence; Particle Tracking Velocimetry; Flow Visualization; Superfluid helium-4, flow visualization, PTV, frozen tracer particles, quantum turbulence, thermal counterflow
Citation Formats
Mastracci, Brian, and Guo, Wei. Exploration of thermal counterflow in He II using particle tracking velocimetry. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.063304.
Mastracci, Brian, & Guo, Wei. Exploration of thermal counterflow in He II using particle tracking velocimetry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.063304
Mastracci, Brian, and Guo, Wei. 2018.
"Exploration of thermal counterflow in He II using particle tracking velocimetry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.063304. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1455435.
@article{osti_1455435,
title = {Exploration of thermal counterflow in He II using particle tracking velocimetry},
author = {Mastracci, Brian and Guo, Wei},
abstractNote = {Flow visualization using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and particularly particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) has been applied to thermal counterflow in He II for nearly two decades now, but the results remain difficult to interpret because tracer particle motion can be influenced by both the normal fluid and superfluid components of He II as well as the quantized vortex tangle. For instance, in one early experiment it was observed (using PTV) that tracer particles move at the normal fluid velocity vn, while in another it was observed (using PIV) that particles move at vn/2. Besides the different visualization methods, the range of applied heat flux investigated by these experiments differed by an order of magnitude. To resolve this apparent discrepancy and explore the statistics of particle motion in thermal counterflow, we apply the PTV method to a wide range of heat flux at a number of different fluid temperatures. In our analysis, we introduce a scheme for analyzing the velocity of particles presumably moving with the normal fluid separately from those presumably influenced by the quantized vortex tangle. Our results show that for lower heat flux there are two distinct peaks in the streamwise particle velocity probability density function (PDF), with one centered at the normal fluid velocity vn (named G2 for convenience) while the other is centered near vn/2 (G1). For higher heat flux there is a single peak centered near vn/2 (G3). Using our separation scheme, we show quantitatively that there is no size difference between the particles contributing to G1 and G2. We also show that nonclassical features of the transverse particle velocity PDF arise entirely from G1, while the corresponding PDF for G2 exhibits the classical Gaussian form. The G2 transverse velocity fluctuation, backed up by second sound attenuation in decaying counterflow, suggests that large-scale turbulence in the normal fluid is absent from the two-peak region. We offer a brief discussion of the physical mechanisms that may be responsible for our observations, revealing that G1 velocity fluctuations may be linked to fluctuations of quantized vortex line velocity, and suggest a number of numerical simulations that may reveal the underlying physics in detail.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.063304},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1455435},
journal = {Physical Review Fluids (Online)},
issn = {2469-990X},
number = 6,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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