d - m at / 0 60 85 37 v 1 [ co nd - m at . s of t ] 2 4 A ug 2 00 6 Transition to Superfluid Turbulence

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  • V. B. Eltsov
  • M. Krusius
  • G. E. Volovik
چکیده

Turbulence in superfluids depends crucially on the dissipative damping in vortex motion. This is observed in the B phase of superfluid 3 He where the dynamics of quantized vortices changes radically in character as a function of temperature. An abrupt transition to turbulence is the most peculiar consequence. As distinct from viscous hydrodynamics, this transition to turbulence is not governed by the velocity-dependent Reynolds number, but by a velocity-independent dimensionless parameter 1/q which depends only on the temperature-dependent mutual friction – the dissipation which sets in when vortices move with respect to the normal excitations of the liquid. At large friction and small values of 1/q 1 the dynamics is vortex number conserving , while at low friction and large 1/q 1 vortices are easily destabilized and proliferate in number. A new measuring technique was employed to identify this hydrodynamic transition: the injection of a tight bundle of many small vortex loops in applied vortex-free flow at relatively high velocities. These vortices are ejected from a vortex sheet covering the AB interface when a two-phase sample of 3 He-A and 3 He-B is set in rotation and the interface becomes unstable at a critical rotation velocity, triggered by the superfluid Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006