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In Fermi superfluids, like superfluid 3He, the viscous normal component can be considered to be stationary with respect to the container. The normal component interacts with the superfluid component via mutual friction which damps the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Vladimir Eltsov , Risto Hänninen , Matti Krusius

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability occurs in multiple heliospheric (solar-wind stream interfaces, planetary magnetospheres, cometary tails, heliopause flanks) and interstellar (protoplanetary disks, relativistic jets, neutron star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Shishir Biswas , Masaru Nakanotani , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Vladimir Florinski , Merav Opher

This comment is on Phys.Rev.Lett. 144, 155302 (2015) by M.T. Reeves, T.P. Billam, B.P. Anderson, and A.S. Bradley "Identifying a superfluid Reynolds number via dynamical similarity" where a new superfluid Reynolds number is introduced. This…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Wilfried Schoepe

A phenomenological criterion for the superfluid transition is proposed, which is similar to the Lindemann criterion for the crystal melting. Then we derive a new formula for the critical temperature, relating $T_{\lambda}$ to the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergey M. Apenko

When a fast-moving drop impacts onto a smooth substrate, splashing will be produced at the edge of the expanding liquid sheet. This ubiquitous phenomenon lacks a fundamental understanding. Combining experiment with model, we illustrate that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-04 Yuan Liu , Peng Tan , Lei Xu

We study the statistical and dynamical behavior of turbulent Kelvin waves propagating on quantized vortices in superfluids, and address the controversy concerning the energy spectrum that is associated with these excitations. Finding the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-13 Laurent Boué , Ratul Dasgupta , Jason Laurie , Victor L'vov , Sergey Nazarenko , Itamar Procaccia

The stability of the heliopause, the tangential discontinuity separating the solar wind from the interstellar medium, is influenced by various processes, including the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This study investigates the role of charge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 A. V. Titova , S. D. Korolkov , V. V. Izmodenov

New techniques, both for generating and detecting turbulence in the helium superfluids 3He-B and 4He, have recently given insight in how turbulence is started, what the dissipation mechanisms are, and how turbulence decays when it appears…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-23 V. B. Eltsov , R. de Graaf , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius , R. E. Solntsev , V. S. L'vov , A. I. Golov , P. M. Walmsley

Recently, it has been argued by Kuklov et al., that unusual features associated with the superflow-through-solid effect observed in solid He4 can be explained by unique properties of dilute distribution of superfluid edge dislocations. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-27 Leo Radzihovsky , Anatoly Kuklov , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

Parallel flow in a Hele-Shaw cell occurs when two immiscible liquids flow with relative velocity parallel to the interface between them. The interface is unstable due to a Kelvin-Helmholtz type of instability in which fluid flow couples…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Miranda , M. Widom

We revisit the classic problem of the stability of drops and jets held by surface tension, while regarding the compressibility of bulk fluids and spatial dimensions as free parameters. By mode analysis, it is shown that there exists a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-24 Umpei Miyamoto

Within the incompressible three-dimensional Euler equations, we study the pancake-like high vorticity regions, which arise during the onset of developed hydrodynamic turbulence. We show that these regions have an internal fine structure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-09 D. S. Agafontsev , E. A. Kuznetsov , A. A. Mailybaev

The effect of optically thin radiative cooling on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of three dimensional jets is investigated via linear stability theory and nonlinear hydrodynamical simulation. Two different cooling functions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jianjun Xu , Philip Hardee , James Stone

We explore instabilities in binary superfluids with a nonvanishing relative superflow, particularly focusing on counterflow and coflow instabilities. We extend recent results on the thermodynamic origin of finite superflow instabilities in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 Yuping An , Blaise Goutéraux , Li Li

The nonlinear evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is a popular test for code verification. To date, most Kelvin-Helmholtz problems discussed in the literature are ill-posed: they do not converge to any single solution with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Daniel Lecoanet , Michael McCourt , Eliot Quataert , Keaton J. Burns , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Jeffrey S. Oishi , Benjamin P. Brown , James M. Stone , Ryan M. O'Leary

We predict an inhomogeneous phase of superfluid 3He films in which translational symmetry is spontaneously broken in the plane of the film. This phase is energetically favored over a range of film thicknesses, $D_{c_2}(T)<D<D_{c_1}(T)$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-07 A. B. Vorontsov , J. A. Sauls

The reciprocal energy and enstrophy transfers between normal fluid and superfluid components dictate the overall dynamics of superfluid $^4$He including the generation, evolution and coupling of coherent structures, the distribution of…

There has been interest in recent years to assess the ability of astrophysical hydrodynamics codes to correctly model the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), in particular, has received significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Terrence S. Tricco

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a standard test of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation codes and finds many applications in astrophysics. The classic linear theory considers a discontinuity in density and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Thomas Berlok , Christoph Pfrommer

The literature on dynamical systems has, for the most part, considered self-oscillators (i.e., systems capable of generating and maintaining a periodic motion at the expense of an external energy source with no corresponding periodicity)…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Carlos D. Díaz-Marín , Alejandro Jenkins