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Soviet Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Quantized vortices in a spherical superfluid volume

L. V. Kiknadze, Yu. G. Mamaladze

Published Apr 1, 1980• 0 citations
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Abstract

The critical rate of vortex formation and the width of the irrotational domain are determined. An equation governing the shape of the vortex line is obtained and solved under boundary conditions corresponding to a spherical geometry.
DOI
10.1063/10.0030035

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