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Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Yuri Sergeev, Professor Carlo Barenghi, Dr Demosthenes Kivotides
Progress in implementing the particle image velocimetry visualization technique in liquid helium has stimulated interest in understanding the dynamics of micron-size solid particles in a superfluid. We show that at sufficiently low temperatures, in the limit of a pure superfluid, the trajectories of small, neutrally buoyant, solid particles are unstable and deviate from the trajectories of superfluid particles, even in the simplest case of the motion around a single stationary straight vortex line. The result also applies to classical Euler flows. The implications of this result for the visualization of turbulent superflow at very low temperatures are discussed. © 2006 The American Physical Society.
Author(s): Sergeev YA, Barenghi CF, Kivotides D, Vinen WF
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Year: 2006
Volume: 73
Issue: 5
Date deposited: 29/11/2013
ISSN (print): 1098-0121
ISSN (electronic): 1550-235X
Publisher: American Physical Society
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.052502
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.052502
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