Phenomenological and Numerical Studies
of Superfluid Helium Dynamics

in the Two-Fluid Model


Publications and presentations:

"A method for the three-dimensional numerical simulation of Superfluid Helium" – C. Darve, L. Bottura, N.A. Patankar and S.W. Van Sciver;
Presented at the International Low Temperature Physics conference (LT25) 2008.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 150.


"A 3-D model of superfluid helium suitable for numerical analysis" - C. Darve, N.A. Patankar, S.W. Van Sciver;
Presented at the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference (ICEC 22) 2008.
Proceeding of the ICEC 22.

"Phenomenological and Numerical Studies of Superfluid Helium Dynamics in the Two-Fluid Model" - C. Darve
"CERN Workshop on Thermal Modeling and Thermal Experiments for Accelerator Magnets"  - 30 October 2009.



Visualisation tool: COMSOL
(Preliminary results w/o the coupling between the normal and superfluid components)

Film the velocity of superfluid component: Normal.gif

Film the velocity of superfluid component: Superfluid.gif

          Normal and superfluid velocities evolution with obstacle.pps
          (Att: there is an inversion in the labels of Normal and Superfluid phases)
         


Earlier results using Fortran