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Contribution of the normal component to the thermal resistance of turbulent liquid helium
2015
Previous results for the velocity profile of the normal component of helium II in counterflow are used to evaluate the viscous contribution to the effective thermal resistance. It turns out that such a contribution becomes considerably higher than the usual Landau estimate, because in the presence of vortices, the velocity profile is appreciably different from the Poiseuille parabolic profile. Thus, a marked increase in the contribution of the normal component to the thermal resistance with respect to the viscous Landau estimate does not necessarily imply that the normal component is turbulent. Furthermore, we examine the influence of a possible slip flow along the walls when the radius of …
Vortex diffusion and vortex-line hysteresis in radial quantum turbulence
2014
Abstract We study the influence of vortex diffusion on the evolution of inhomogeneous quantized vortex tangles. A simple hydrodynamical model to describe inhomogeneous counterflow superfluid turbulence is used. As an illustration, we obtain solutions for these effects in radial counterflow of helium II between two concentric cylinders at different temperatures. The vortex diffusion from the inner hotter cylinder to the outer colder cylinder increases the vortex length density everywhere as compared with the non-diffusive situation. The possibility of hysteresis in the vortex line density under cyclical variations of the heat flow is explored.
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics analysis of rotating counterflow superfluid turbulence
2010
In two previous papers two evolution equations for the vortex line density $L$, proposed by Vinen, were generalized to rotating superfluid turbulence and compared with each other. Here, the already generalized alternative Vinen equation is extended to the case in which counterflow and rotation are not collinear. Then, the obtained equation is considered from the viewpoint of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. According with this formalism, the compatibility between this evolution equation for $L$ and that one for the velocity of the superfluid component is studied. The compatibility condition requires the presence of a new term dependent on the anisotropy of the tangle, which indicates how the…
Unsteady turbulence in plane channel flow
2011
Abstract Direct numerical simulations were conducted for oscillating flow with zero time mean (reciprocating flow) in a plane channel subject to a harmonic forcing term of varying amplitude and frequency. The results confirmed the existence of four flow regimes (laminar, “disturbed laminar”, intermittently turbulent, and fully turbulent) depending on the above parameters. The flow behaviour was found to depend on the complex interplay of mean and turbulence quantities, as described by the closed loop formed by the streamwise Reynolds-averaged momentum equation in conjunction with the exact transport equations for the turbulent (Reynolds) stresses. A crucial role in this loop appeared to be …
Transition to turbulence in toroidal pipes
2011
AbstractIncompressible flow in toroidal pipes of circular cross-section was investigated by three-dimensional, time-dependent numerical simulations using a finite volume method. The computational domain included a whole torus and was discretized by up to ${\ensuremath{\sim} }11. 4\ensuremath{\times} 1{0}^{6} $ nodes. Two curvatures $\delta $ (radius of the cross-section/radius of the torus), namely 0.3 and 0.1, were examined; a streamwise forcing term was imposed, and its magnitude was made to vary so that the bulk Reynolds number ranged between ${\ensuremath{\sim} }3500$ and ${\ensuremath{\sim} }14\hspace{0.167em} 700$. The results were processed by different techniques in order to confirm…
A principal component analysis based method for the Simulation of turbulence-degraded infrared image sequence
1999
Une methode originale de simulation d’images degradees par la turbulence atmospherique est presentee. Les methodes existantes ne permettent de simuler que des images temporellement decorrelees les unes des autres, dans le cas de l ’isoplanetisme ou du faible anisoplanetisme. Dans cet article, une simulation pour le cas de fort anisoplanetisme est proposee et une etude sur l’aspect temporel du phenomene dans le but de construire une sequence d’images degradees, a l’aide de l’analyse en composantes principales est faite. Les images obtenues montrent clairement les effets de lanisoplanetisme et l’evolution temporelle de la turbulence.
Effective thermal conductivity of superuid helium: Laminar, turbulent and ballistic regimes
2016
Abstract In this paper we extend previous results on the effective thermal conductivity of liquid helium II in cylindrical channels to rectangular channels with high aspect ratio. The aim is to compare the results in the laminar regime, the turbulent regime and the ballistic regime, all of them obtained within a single mesoscopic formalism of heat transport, with heat flux as an independent variable.
Approches région et bayésienne pour la restauration ďimages dégradées par la turbulence atmosphérique
2001
La turbulence atmospherique perturbe ľobservation a haute resolution. C’est un phenomene etudie depuis longtemps, en astronomie notamment. Le present article porte sur le cas de ľobservation ďun objet situe environ vingt kilometres, la propagation etant horizontale et pres du sol, en infrarouge. Les images a longue pose sont restaurees avec des algorithmes classiques de deconvolution. Les resultats ne sont satisfaisants que pour une faible perturbation. Il est plus avantageux ďexploiter des images courte pose, car elles contiennent plus de hautes frequences spatiales; mais ľobjet observe y fluctue aleatoirement. On travaille donc ici partir ďune sequence de plusieurs dizaines ďimages. Deux …
Rateless codes mitigation technique in a turbulent indoor Free Space Optics link
2014
Free Space Optics (FSO) links are affected by several impairments and, among them, optical turbulence is the most important factor that can degrade the link quality. Due to the presence of this phenomenon, the signal irradiance detected by the receiver fluctuates, thus causing erasure errors and fading events. In this work, we present an indoor Free Space Optics link, in which several turbulence conditions are generated by using two heating elements. We show that the generated turbulence causes erasure errors and packet losses during the data transmission, and we also compare the statistical distribution of the samples with the theoretical models. Moreover, we demonstrate how the applicatio…
Vortex density waves and high-frequency second sound in superfluid turbulence hydrodynamics
2010
In this paper we show that a recent hydrodynamical model of superfluid turbulence describes vortex density waves and their effects on the speed of high-frequency second sound. In this frequency regime, the vortex dynamics is not purely diffusive, as for low frequencies, but exhibits ondulatory features, whose influence on the second sound is here explored.