Abstract:A piezoquartz oscillator (tuning fork) immersed in liquid is used to study the kinetic and dissipative processes in He II experimentally. The electrical response of the tuning fork near its resonance frequency is measured with different exciting voltages at temperatures ranging from 0.1Kto4.2K. The measured values of the half-width of the resonance curves made it possible to determine the viscosity of the normal component of He II in a wide temperature range. A maximum of the effective viscosity is found at te… Show more
“…We have studied the hysteretic transition to and from laminar and turbulent states of a tuning fork in superfluid 4 He at millikelvin temperatures. There is rich preliminary data in Fig.…”
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“…Two RuO 2 resistors are used one as a thermometer and one a heater. Most of the volume is occupied by silver sinter heat exchangers used to cool the 4 He sample (Color figure online)…”
We have been studying the behaviour of commercial quartz tuning forks immersed in superfluid 4 He and driven at resonance. For one of the forks we have observed hysteresis and switching between linear and non-linear damping regimes at temperatures below 10 mK. We associate linear damping with pure potential flow around the prongs of the fork, and non-linear damping with the production of vortex lines in a turbulent regime. At appropriate prong velocities, we have observed metastability of both the linear and the turbulent flow states, and a region of intermittency where the flow switched back and forth between each state. For the same fork, we have also observed anomalous behaviour in the linear regime, with large excursions in both damping, resonant frequency, and the tip velocity as a function of driving force.
“…We have studied the hysteretic transition to and from laminar and turbulent states of a tuning fork in superfluid 4 He at millikelvin temperatures. There is rich preliminary data in Fig.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two RuO 2 resistors are used one as a thermometer and one a heater. Most of the volume is occupied by silver sinter heat exchangers used to cool the 4 He sample (Color figure online)…”
We have been studying the behaviour of commercial quartz tuning forks immersed in superfluid 4 He and driven at resonance. For one of the forks we have observed hysteresis and switching between linear and non-linear damping regimes at temperatures below 10 mK. We associate linear damping with pure potential flow around the prongs of the fork, and non-linear damping with the production of vortex lines in a turbulent regime. At appropriate prong velocities, we have observed metastability of both the linear and the turbulent flow states, and a region of intermittency where the flow switched back and forth between each state. For the same fork, we have also observed anomalous behaviour in the linear regime, with large excursions in both damping, resonant frequency, and the tip velocity as a function of driving force.
“…Studies of kinetic processes in a concentrated 3 He- 4 He solution using an oscillating tuning fork 1. Introduction Recently, vibrating quartz tuning forks immersed in superfluid 4 He, have been widely used to study different processes within liquids, including the transition to a turbulent state, 1-4 viscosity, 5,6 the behavior of 3 He impurities, 7 etc.…”
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“…In most experimental studies, the tuning forks were used to examine the properties of pure 4 He. As for a solution of 3 He in 4 He, the first details about the dissipative processes in the tuning fork-superfluid solution system are obtained in Ref.…”
The dissipative processes causing the damping of quartz tuning fork vibrations in a solution of 15% 3 He in 4 He, are studied in a temperature range of 0.5-2.3 K. The resonance curves of the tuning forks are measured in the laminar flow region of the liquid, and their width is determined by the width of the dissipative processes. We examined tuning forks with a resonance frequency of 32 kHz, located inside a flask ("enclosed") and tuning forks without a flask ("unenclosed"). The results of the experiment are compared to existing theories. It was found that a significant contribution to the damping of tuning fork oscillations for a solution, as opposed to pure 4 He, is from the second sound radiation, the contribution of which exceeds the input of viscous dissipation at low temperatures. The radiation of the first sound does not contribute to the damping of the oscillations of the "enclosed" fork due to the small size of the cell versus the wavelength. In the case of the "unenclosed" fork, the damping is determined by three processes: viscous dissipation and radiation of the first and second sounds. V C 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
“…They have been used as thermometers, viscometers and pressure sensors [15] in all the helium fluids, as well as in QT studies in He II. Forks have been shown [15,[17][18][19][20][21] to generate QT over a wide range of temperatures. The question naturally arises, therefore, as to whether forks can also act as detectors of vortex lines?…”
We report the results of experiments to explore interactions between physically separated oscillating objects in isotopically pure superfluid 4 He at T ∼ 10 mK. The investigations focused mainly on 32 kHz quartz tuning forks, but also consider a nearby 1 kHz oscillating grid. The low-drive linewidth (LDL) and resonant frequency f d of a detector fork were monitored while the maximum velocity of a transmitter fork, separated from the detector by a few mm, was varied over a wide range. Clear evidence was found for mutual interactions between the two forks, and for the influence of the grid on the forks. Monitoring the detector's LDL and f d provides evidence for a generator critical velocity in the range 0.3 < v c1 <1.0 cm/s for onset of the detector responses, in addition to a second critical velocity v c2 ∼ 13 cm/s probably corresponding to the production of quantum turbulence at the generator. The results are discussed, but are not yet fully understood.
PACS: 67.25.dk Vortices and turbulence;47.27.Сn Transition to turbulence.
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