Bulletin of the American Physical Society
60th Annual Meeting of the Divison of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 52, Number 12
Sunday–Tuesday, November 18–20, 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah
Session HS: Invited Session: Vortices, particles and superfluidity |
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Chair: Lex Smits, Princeton University Room: Salt Palace Convention Center Ballroom EG |
Monday, November 19, 2007 2:00PM - 2:35PM |
HS.00001: Vortices, particles and superfluidity Invited Speaker: Vortices in helium II are of the order of an angstrom in diameter and many thousands of diameters long. Except for distances of the order of a few angstroms from the core, where the appropriate physics is quantum mechanical, these vortices are classical in their behavior. Thus, they approximate nearly perfectly vortex lines of classical hydrodynamics. A three-dimensional tangle of these vortex lines gives rise to complex fluid motion, which is called the superfluid turbulence. A review of the progress made recently in understanding superfluid turbulence is a principal purpose of this talk. In particular, some attention will be paid to the visualization of superfluid vortices. The principal tool is the trapping of small particles of solid hydrogen along the cores of superfluid vortices. The particles are not always passive tracers and so the conditions under which they may be so considered will be discussed. Also to be discussed are dynamical aspects such as vortex reconnection and decay. Complementary results from simulations will also be discussed as necessary. The experimental work is principally the collaborative product with Greg Bewley and Dan Lathrop, as well as with Russ Donnelly and his group. [Preview Abstract] |
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