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A scaling parameter for He II thermal counterflow and critical heat currents

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A scaling parameter for He II thermal counterflow is developed from a consideration of the stability of the normal fluid component in the presence of superfluid vortex production. Observations of superfluid “entrainment” are combined with a reinterpretation of the “mutual friction force” to define the scaling parameter which is shown to be independent of temperature and geometry at the critical heat current.

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  1. Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

    J. T. Tough & C. E. Oberly

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Work supported by National Science Foundation grants GP 13381 and GP 27242.

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Tough, J.T., Oberly, C.E. A scaling parameter for He II thermal counterflow and critical heat currents. J Low Temp Phys 6, 161–170 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630914

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