Radiation Pressure of Second Sound in Liquid Helium

The two-fluid theory and second sound in liquid helium

© 2009 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0910-020-0 Early research with liquid helium showed that it had remarkable new properties, especially below the so-called lambda transition near 2.2 K, where there is a sharp, narrow peak in the specific heat (see figure 1a). The liquid below the transition was named helium II to distinguish it from the liquid above the transition, called helium...

Coefficients of the second viscosity in bulk liquid helium.

Coefficients of the second viscosity in thin liquid-helium films.

Sound Pressure Correlates of the Second Heart Sound

The sound pressure correlates of the second heart sound were studied in 22 patients during diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Simultaneous right ventricular and pulmonary artery pressures were recorded with equisensitive catheter-tip micromanometers together with the external phonocardiogram and ECG. In 12 patients having normal pulmonary vascular resistance (group 1), pulmonic closure sound w...

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...