Contribution of the normal component to the thermal resistance of turbulent liquid helium (Q493586)

This paper is concerned with the study of the normal component of Helium II to the thermal resistance in counterflow along a cylindrical channel in the superfluid turbulent regime. It is established that a marked increase in the contribution of the normal component with respect to the viscous Landau estimate does not necessarily imply that the normal component is turbulent. The paper under review also examines the influence of a slip flow along the walls when the radius of the tube becomes comparable with the photon mean free path. Some numerical estimates illustrate the results of this paper.