posted on 2006-04-12, 12:30authored byFeodor Kusmartsev
We propose very general vortex nucleation mechanisms analogous to a hydrodynamic instability and calculate associated critical velocity in agreement with experiments.
The creation of vortices via extrinsic mechanism is driven by a formation of the surface vorticity sheet created by the flow, which reaches a critical size. Such a sheet screens an attraction of a half-vortex ring to the wall, the barrier for the vortex nucleation disappears and the vortex nucleation is started. In the intrinsic mechanism the creation of a big vortex ring, which transforms into the vortex, is driven by a fluctuative generation of small vortex rings
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1996
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This is a pre-print. It is also available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9605201.