Cette thèse de doctorat à été réalisée au sein du Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels (LEGI) et du Service des Basses Températures du CEA de Grenoble. Ce travail expérimental a porté sur l'étude comparative de la turbulence classique et quantique à très grand nombre de Reynolds d'un écoulement turbulent de jet d'hélium liquide normal (HeI) et superfluide (HeII) entre 2.3K et 1.78K. Le travail s’est en premier lieu concentré sur le développement des moyens d'essais (une soufflerie cryogénique à boucle fermée pressurisée et régulée en température) et sur l'adaptation de la technique de l'anémomètrie à fil chaud aux basses températures. L’étude s’est poursuivie par l'analyse statistique du champ de vitesse en He I et, plus particulièrement, des incréments spatiaux de vitesse en fluide normal montrant un bon accord avec la littérature et fournissant un véritable point de départ pour la mise en évidence de comportements différents en HeII. Les résultats obtenus en superfluide montrent d'une part un comportement classique à grande échelle et, d’autre part, des écarts aux petites échelles qui dépendent de la température du fluide (i.e. de la fraction variable de superfluide). L'effet le plus évident se manifeste par un changement du signe de la fonction de structure d'ordre 3 des incréments de vitesse. / This experimental work is focused on the the statistical study of the high Reynolds number turbulent velocity field in an inertially driven liquid helium axis-symmetric round jet at temperatures above and below the lambda transition (between 2.3 K and 1.78 K) in a cryogenic wind tunnel. The possibility to finely tune the fluid temperature allows us to perform a comparative study of the quantum HeII turbulence within the classical framework of the Kolmogorov turbulent cascade in order to have a better understanding of the energy cascade process in a superfluid. In particular we focused our attention on the intermittency phenomena, in both He I and He II phases, by measuring the high order statistics of the longitudinal velocity increments by means of the flatness and the skewness statistical estimators.A first phase consisted in developing the cryogenic facility, a closed loop pressurized and temperature regulated wind tunnel, and adapting the classic hot-wire anemometry technique in order to be able to work in such a challenging low temperature environment. A detailed calibration procedure of the fully developed turbulent flow was the carried out at 2.3 K at Reynolds numbers based on the Taylor length scale up to 2600 in order to qualify our testing set-up and to identify possible facility-related spurious phenomena. This procedure showed that the statistical properties of the longitudinal velocity increments are in good agreement with respect to previous results.By further reducing the temperature of the working fluid (at a constant pressure) below the lambda point down to 1.78K local velocity measurements were performed at different superfluid density fractions. The results show a classic behaviour of the He II energy cascade at large scales while, at smaller scales, a deviation has been observed. The occurence of this phenomenon, which requires further investigation and modelling, is highlighted by the observed changing sign of the third order structure function of the longitudinal velocity increments. The intermittency phenomena is also observed and a quantitative analysis is carried out by measuring the scaling behaviour of the velocity increments flatness which is consistent with results obtained in Navier-Stokes fluids. This Ph.D. thesis has been carried out at the LEGI (Laboratoire des Écoulement Géophysiques et Industriels) laboratory in Grenoble and at the CEA Low Temperature Department (SBT) in Grenoble.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:theses.fr/2012GRENI037 |
| Date | 30 November 2012 |
| Creators | Duri, Davide |
| Contributors | Grenoble, Baudet, Christophe |
| Source Sets | Dépôt national des thèses électroniques françaises |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text |
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