Abstract

Boiling behavior of liquid 3He below 1 K was visualized as shadowgraph image. A light source and a video camera (or still camera) were arranged at room temperature. The light was guided to the 3He cell by an optical fiber, and the shadowgraph image was transferred to the camera by an image fiber. The 3He bubble formed on the heated copper surface was spheroid-like due to the low surface tension. The size at departure from the surface and the relative bubble formation rate were measured as a function of heat flux. The previously obtained heat transfer curve could be explained qualitatively by this boiling behavior.

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