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We study vortices in a radially inhomogeneous superfluid, as realized by a trapped degenerate Bose gas in a uniaxially symmetric potential. We show that, in contrast to a homogeneous superfluid, an off-axis vortex corresponds to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel E. Sheehy , Leo Radzihovsky

Inertial particle data from three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of particle-laden homogeneous isotropic turbulence at high Reynolds number are analyzed using Voronoi tessellation of the particle positions, considering different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-12 Thibault Oujia , Keigo Matsuda , Kai Schneider

Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rotating spherical shell provides a simplified model for convective dynamics of planetary and stellar interiors. In this study, we build more than 200 numerical models of rotating convection in a spherical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wei Fan , Qi Wang , Yufeng Lin

Pattern forming with externally imposed symmetry is ubiquitous in nature but lightly studied.We present experimental studies of pattern formation and selection by spatial periodic forcing in rapidly rotating convection. We observe symmetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-25 Shan-Shan Ding , Hong-Lin Zhang , Dong-Tian Chen , Hao-Han Sun , Jin-Qiang Zhong

The vortex density of a rotating superfluid, divided by its particle mass, dictates the superfluid's angular velocity through the Feynman relation. To find how the Feynman relation applies to superfluid mixtures, we investigate a rotating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryan Barnett , Gil Refael , Mason A. Porter , Hans Peter Buchler

Releasing shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates from their confinement produces a spherically symmetric density distribution characterized by concentric ripples surrounding a central peak. Here we investigate how a vortex-antivortex dipole…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-23 A. Tononi

We report flow measurements in rotating Rayleigh--B\'enard convection in the rotationally-constrained geostrophic regime. We apply stereoscopic particle image velocimetry to measure the three components of velocity in a horizontal…

The center-of-mass dynamics of a vortex in the surface region of a Bose-Einstein condensate is investigated both analytically using a variational calculation and numerically by solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We find,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 U. Al Khawaja

We derive a relationship for the vortex aspect ratio $\alpha$ (vertical half-thickness over horizontal length scale) for steady and slowly evolving vortices in rotating stratified fluids, as a function of the Brunt-Vaisala frequencies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-23 Pedram Hassanzadeh , Philip S. Marcus , Patrice Le Gal

We study numerically the vortex dynamics and vortex-lattice formation in a rotating density-dependent Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), characterized by the presence of nonlinear rotation. By varying the strength of nonlinear rotation in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-03 Ishfaq Ahmad Bhat , Thudiyangal Mithun , Bishwajyoti Dey

The vortex unsteadiness around a hemisphere-cylinder body at AOAs of 10 to 80 deg was studied using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD). The Reynolds number (Re) based on the cylinder diameter of the body is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-11 Bao-Feng Ma , Shuo-Lin Yin

This study aims to research on dynamics of two quantized vortices in miscible two-component Bose--Einstein condensates, trapped by a circular box potential by using the Gross--Pitaevskii equation. We consider a situation in which two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-26 Junsik Han , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

We present the results of molecular dynamic simulations of a two-dimensional vortex array driven by a uniform current through random pinning centers at zero temperature. We identify two types of flow of the driven array near the depinning…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. C. Faleski , M. C. Marchetti , A. A. Middleton

Vortices in a one-component dilute atomic ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) usually arise as a response to externally driven rotation. Apart from a few special situations, these vortices are singly quantized with unit circulation.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexander L. Fetter

Recently, in Zhang et al. (2020), it was found that in rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) in slender cylindrical containers (with diameter-to-height aspect ratio $\Gamma=1/2$) filled with a small-Prandtl-number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Xuan Zhang , Robert E. Ecke , Olga Shishkina

In this paper, we present results from an experimental study into turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection forced externally by periodically modulated unidirectional rotation rates. We find that the azimuthal rotation velocity $\dot{\theta}$(t)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-14 Sebastian Sterl , Hui-Min Li , Jin-Qiang Zhong

The streamwise and transverse velocities are measured simultaneously in isotropic grid turbulence at relatively high Reynolds numbers, Re(lambda) = 110-330. Using a conditional averaging technique, we extract typical intermittency patterns,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Mouri , A. Hori , Y. Kawashima

Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, i.e. the flow of a fluid between two parallel plates that is driven by a temperature gradient, is an idealised setup to study thermal convection. Of special interest are the statistics of the turbulent…

We observe interlaced square vortex lattices in rotating two-component dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). After preparing a hexagonal vortex lattice in a single-component BEC in an internal state $|1>$ of $^{87}$Rb atoms, we…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Schweikhard , I. Coddington , P. Engels , S. Tung , E. A. Cornell

Patterns of convection in internally heated, self-gravitating rotating spherical fluid shells are investigated through numerical simulations. While turbulent states are of primary interest in planetary and stellar applications the present…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-06-09 R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse