On the interaction of second sound shock waves and vorticity in superfluid helium

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 2636 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Torczynski
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 713 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Cummings ◽  
Dieter W. Schmidt ◽  
Wolfgang J. Wagner

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 2418 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Torczynski ◽  
D. Gerthsen ◽  
T. Roesgen

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ruggeri ◽  
A. Muracchini ◽  
L. Seccia

1991 ◽  
Vol 161 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vadim Petrovich Romanov ◽  
Tagaimurod Khaitovich Salikhov

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1250242
Author(s):  
ANDREY N. GANSHIN ◽  
VICTOR B. EFIMOV ◽  
GERMAN V. KOLMAKOV ◽  
LEONID P. MEZHOV-DEGLIN ◽  
PETER V. E. McCLINTOCK

Recent work on nonlinear second sound wave propagation and acoustic turbulence in superfluid 4 He is reviewed. Observations of direct and inverse turbulent energy cascades are described. The direct cascade arises due to the strong nonlinear dependence of the second sound wave velocity on its amplitude. The flux of energy injected at the driving frequency is transformed via successively higher harmonics until it is eventually attenuated by viscous dissipation at the short-wavelength edge of the spectrum. The onset of the inverse cascade occurs above a critical driving energy density, and it is accompanied by giant waves that constitute an acoustic analogue of the rogue waves that occasionally appear on the surface of the ocean. The theory of the phenomena is outlined and shown to be in good agreement with the experiments.


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