THE FLOW AND VISCOSITY OF LIQUID HELIUM
- 1 August 1939
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Research
- Vol. 17a (8) , 149-163
- https://doi.org/10.1139/cjr39a-013
Abstract
Experiments on the flow of liquid helium through glass capillaries ranging in diameter from 0.025 cm. to 0.0036 cm., and with lengths varying from 2 cm. to 26 cm. were carried out. Normal laminar flow was obtained for He I with a viscosity of the order of 10−5 c.g.s. units. For He II it was found that the flow could be expressed as the sum of a laminar flow plus an additional pressure-independent flow. The laminar portion, which obeyed Poiseuille's law, gave a viscosity of the order of 10−3 c.g.s. units. The pressure-independent portion appears to be partially due to "creep" over the top of the reservoir, but there still remains an additional pressure-independent flow through the capillaries. This additional flow depends among other things on the intensity of illumination and is evidently connected with the "fountain" effect.Keywords
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