Helium Cryogenics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Cryogenic Principles and Applications

   • Steven W. Van Sciver

   Pages 1-16

3. Low-Temperature Materials Properties

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   Pages 17-58

4. Helium as a Classical Fluid

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   Pages 59-84

5. Classical Helium Fluid Mechanics

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   Pages 85-114

6. Classical Helium Heat Transfer

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   Pages 115-161

7. Helium as a Quantum Fluid

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   Pages 163-226

8. He II Heat and Mass Transfer

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   Pages 227-315

9. Liquefaction and Refrigeration Systems

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   Pages 317-375

10. 3He and Refrigeration Below 1 K

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    Pages 377-392

11. Special Topics in Helium Cryogenics

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    Pages 393-430

12. Back Matter

    Pages 431-470

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Twenty five years have elapsed since the original publication of Helium Cryogenics. During this time, a considerable amount of research and development involving helium fluids has been carried out culminating in several large-scale projects. Furthermore, the field has matured through these efforts so that there is now a broad engineering base to assist the development of future projects.

Helium Cryogenics, 2nd edition brings these advances in helium cryogenics together in an updated form. As in the original edition, the author's approach is to survey the field of cryogenics with emphasis on helium fluids. This approach is more specialized and fundamental than that contained in other cryogenics books, which treat the associated range of cryogenic fluids. As a result, the level of treatment is more advanced and assumes a certain knowledge of fundamental engineering and physics principles, including some quantum mechanics.

The goal throughout the work is to bridge the gap between the physics and engineering aspects of helium fluids to provide a source for engineers and scientists to enhance their usefulness in low-temperature systems.

Dr. Van Sciver is a Distinguished Research Professor and John H. Gorrie Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida State University. He is also a Program Director at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL). Dr. Van  Sciver joined the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the NHMFL in 1991, initiating and teaching a graduate program in magnet and materials engineering and in cryogenic thermal sciences and heat transfer. He also led the NHMFL development efforts of the cryogenic systems for the NHMFL Hybrid and 900 MHz NMR superconducting magnets. Between 1997 and 2003, he served as Director of Magnet Science and Technology at the NHMFL. Dr. Van Sciver is a Fellow of the ASME and the Cryogenic Society of America and American Editor for the journal Cryogenics. He is the 2010 recipient of the Kurt Mendelssohn Award.

Prior to joining Florida State University, Dr. Van Sciver was Research Scientist and then Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Engineering Physics and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1976 to 1991. During that time he also served as the Associate Director of the Applied Superconductivity Center. Dr. Van Sciver received his PhD in Low Temperature Physics from the University of Washington-Seattle in 1976. He received his BS degree in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University in 1970.

Dr. Van Sciver is author of over 200 publications and patents in low temperature physics, liquid helium technology, cryogenic engineering and magnet technology. The first edition of Helium Cryogenics was published by Plenum Press (1986). The present work is an update and expansion of that original project.

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“Steven W Van Sciver’s ‘Helium Cryogenics’ is used as a textbook in a graduate level mechanical engineering course. … It goes into fine details of some of the complexities of heat transfer and flow of various states and mixtures of states of He. … For those interested in the cryogenic properties of ³He and ⁴He this book is an invaluable reference, as it has an account of all the current knowledge on the subject.” (Blair Jamieson, Physics in Canada, La Physique au Canada, Vol. 69 (3), 2013)

• , Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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