Short Wave Instability on Vortex Filaments
- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
The short wave instability on corotating vortex filaments is investigated. It is shown that the short wave instability always occurs on corotating vortex filaments of fixed core structure. Moreover, when the interfilament distance is smaller than or comparable to the core size, vortex filaments produce short wave unstable modes which lead to wild stretching and folding; when vortex filaments are far apart from each other, unstable modes are bounded by a fraction of the core size and the vortex stretching remains bounded. These findings may be used to explain the smooth behavior of superfluid vortices. They also explain the stretching seen in numerical calculations. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 604448
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 80; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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