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We present a numerical study, using the vortex filament model, of vortex tangles in a flow of pure superfluid $^4$He in the $T = 0$ limit through a channel of width $D = 1$ mm for various applied velocities $V$. The flat channel walls are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Matthew J Doyle , Andrei I Golov , Paul M Walmsley , Andrew W Baggaley

By analyzing trajectories of solid hydrogen tracers, we find that the distributions of velocity in decaying quantum turbulence in superfluid $^4$He are strongly non-Gaussian with $1/v^3$ power-law tails. These features differ from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-10 M. S. Paoletti , Michael E. Fisher , K. R. Sreenivasan , D. P. Lathrop

The density fluctuations of quantum vortex lines are measured in a turbulent flow of superfluid He, at temperatures corresponding to superfluid fraction of 16%, 47% and 81%. The probe is a micro-fabricated second sound resonator that allows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Eric Woillez , Jérôme Valentin , Philippe-E Roche

We have developed a two-dimensional model of quantised vortices in helium II moving under the influence of applied normal fluid and superfluid in a counterflow channel. We predict superfluid and vortex-line density profiles which could be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 L. Galantucci , C. F. Barenghi , M. Sciacca , M. Quadrio , P. Luchini

We perform fully coupled two--dimensional numerical simulations of plane channel helium II counterflows with vortex--line density typical of experiments. The main features of our approach are the inclusion of the back reaction of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Luca Galantucci , Michele Sciacca , Carlo F. Barenghi

Horizontally ($\mathbf{\Omega} \perp \mathbf{v}_{\rm{ns}}$) and axially ($\mathbf{\Omega} \parallel \mathbf{v}_{\rm{ns}}$) rotating counterflow of superfluid $^4$He (He~II) generated thermally in a square channel is studied using the second…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Filip Novotný , Marek Talíř , Emil Varga , Ladislav Skrbek

During this internship, the starting vortex and its shedding from the trailing edge of an airfoil moving at constant acceleration in $^4$He has been studied. The airfoil has an angle of attack of 49.1{\deg} and corresponds to the NACA 0012,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-03 Brichet Lyse

Generation, statistically steady state, and temporal decay of axially rotating thermal counterflow of superfluid $^4$He (He~II) in a square channel is probed using the second sound attenuation technique, measuring the density of quantized…

The coupled dynamics of the two-fluid model of superfluid $^4$He is numerically studied for quantum turbulence of the thermal counterflow in a square channel. We combine the vortex filament model of the superfluid and the Navier-Stokes…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-18 Satoshi Yui , Makoto Tsubota , Hiromichi Kobayashi

We present a field study of snow settling dynamics based on simultaneous measurements of the atmospheric flow field and snow particle trajectories. Specifically, a super-large-scale particle image velocimetry (SLPIV) system using natural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-13 Jiaqi Li , Aliza Abraham , Michele Guala , Jiarong Hong

Vorticity in turbulent flows is often organized into complex geometries that influence the dynamics. We use a relatively novel approach to describe these geometries: that of obtaining segments of vortex lines embedded in the flow. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Saumav Kapoor , Rama Govindarajan , Siddhartha Mukherjee

Particles have been used for more than a decade to visualize and study the dynamics of quantum vortices in superfluid helium. In this work we study how the dynamics of a collection of particles set inside a vortex reflects the motion of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Umberto Giuriato , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

We are concerned with the problem of the decay of a tangle of quantized vortices in He II generated by a heat current. Direct application of Vinen's equation yields the temporal scaling of vortex line density $L \sim t^{-1}$. Schwarz and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Michele Sciacca , Yuri A. Sergeev , Carlo F. Barenghi , Ladik Skrbek

We present an accurate and robust numerical method to track quantized vortex lines in a superfluid described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. By utilizing the pseudo-vorticity field of the associated complex scalar order parameter of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 Alberto Villois , Giorgio Krstulovic , Davide Proment , Hayder Salman

Theory of superfluid $^4$He shows that, due to strong correlations and backflow effects, the density profile of a vortex line has the character of a density modulation and it is not a simple rarefaction region as found in clouds of cold…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-11 Ivan Amelio , Davide Emilio Galli , Luciano Reatto

Superfluid $^3$He-B in the zero-temperature limit offers a unique means of studying quantum turbulence by the Andreev reflection of quasiparticle excitations by the vortex flow fields. We validate the experimental visualization of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-14 A. W. Baggaley , V. Tsepelin , C. F. Barenghi , S. N. Fisher , G. R. Pickett , Y. A. Sergeev , N. Suramlishvili

We introduce the first comprehensive approach to determine the uncertainty in volumetric Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) measurements. Volumetric PTV is a state-of-the-art non-invasive flow measurement technique, which measures the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Sayantan Bhattacharya , Pavlos P. Vlachos

Despite being a quantum two-fluid system, superfluid helium-4 (He II) is observed to behave similarly to classical fluids when a flow is generated by mechanical forcing. This similarity has brought up the feasibility of utilizing He II for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-02 Yuan Tang , Shiran Bao , Toshiaki Kanai , Wei Guo

We propose to combine the active vortex generators with the particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements and post-processing streamwise vortex characterization algorithms into a feedback based closed-loop control system for wind turbine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-04 Caroline Braud , Alex Liberzon

The nonequilibrium dynamics of vortices in 2D quantum fluids can be predicted by accounting for the way in which vortex ellipticity is coupled to the gradient in background fluid density. In the absence of nonlinear interactions, a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-27 Chuanzhou Zhu , Mark E. Siemens , Mark T. Lusk