A SURVEY of the various properties of liquid helium II has prompted us to investigate its viscosity more carefully. One of us1 had previously deduced an upper limit of 10−5 C.G.S. units for the viscosity of helium II by measuring the damping of an oscillating cylinder. We had reached the same conclusion as Kapitza in the letter above ; namely, that due to the high Reynolds number involved, the measurements probably represent non-laminar flow.
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ALLEN , J., MISENER , A. Flow of Liquid Helium II. Nature 141, 75 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141075a0
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