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Effects of heat flux on lambda transition in liquid 4He,
Lidia SalutoMaria Stella Mongiovìsubject
PhysicsPhase transitionField (physics)Liquid heliumMechanical EngineeringMechanicsCondensed Matter Physicslaw.inventionSuperfluidityClassical mechanicsHeat fluxMechanics of MaterialslawPhase (matter)ThermalDissipative systemLiquid helium Phase transitions Mean phase-field model Superfluids.Settore MAT/07 - Fisica Matematicadescription
This paper is concerned with the derivation of a phase field model for λ-transition in 4He, when the liquid is subject to pressure and heat flux. As parameter that controls the transition, a field f that is the geometrical mean between the density of the fluid and that of the superfluid is used. The resulting model, that is a generalization of previous papers on the same subject, chooses as field variables the density, the velocity, the temperature and the heat flux, in addition to this field f. The restrictions on the constitutive quantities are obtained by using the Liu method of Lagrange multipliers. New results with respect to previous models are the presence of non-local terms to describe inhomogeneities in the field variables and dissipative effects of mechanical and thermal origin, and the fact that the model describes the behaviour of the liquid also far from the λ-transition region.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-28 |