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Identifying a Superfluid Reynolds Number via Dynamical Similarity

M T Reeves1, T P Billam1,2, B P Anderson3

  • 1Jack Dodd Centre for Quantum Technology, Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.

Physical Review Letters
|May 2, 2015
PubMed
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Researchers defined a superfluid Reynolds number (Re(s)) to characterize turbulent flow in superfluid systems. This new parameter reveals universal dynamics in vortex shedding, similar to classical fluid dynamics.

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