Cavitation in Liquid Helium

Quantum cavitation in liquid helium.

Using a functional-integral approach, we have determined the temperature below which cavitation in liquid helium is driven by thermally assisted quantum tunneling. For both helium isotopes, we have obtained the crossover temperature in the whole range of allowed negative pressures. Our results are compatible with recent experimental results on He. 64.60.Qb, 64.60.My, 67.80.Gb Typeset using REVT...

Cavitation of Electron Bubbles in Liquid Helium Below Saturation Pressure

We have used a Hartree-type electron-helium potential together with a density functional description of liquid 4He and 3He to study the explosion of electron bubbles submitted to a negative pressure. The critical pressure at which bubbles explode has been determined as a function of temperature. It has been found that this critical pressure is very close to the pressure at which liquid helium b...

Cavitation in a flowing liquid.

In this letter, I am going to propose that the cavitation threshold in a flowing liquid could be associated with the maximum tension that the fluid can sustain before undergoing cohesive fracture at a point. My criterion is not isotropic; I am thinking that a liquid will break if the tension in one direction exceeds a threshold, independent of the value of the other principal stresses. The othe...

Vortex Photography in Liquid Helium

The study of quantized vortex lines has been advanced hy the technique of vortex photography. This paper prov~dex an overview of the information which has been acquired thus far from this method. Stationary cortex states are ohser\ed which are very similar to those predicted from theory. In addition types of dynamical phenomena are observed. such a\ collective oscillations and the acceleration ...

Thermal nucleation and cavitation in helium-3 fluids