Theoretical Developments
The idea that a form of turbulence might be possible in a superfluid via the quantized vortex lines was first suggested by Richard Feynman. Since then, the theoretical understanding of quantum turbulence has posed many challenges, some similar to those of classical fluid mechanics, but also new phenomena peculiar to superfluids and not encountered elsewhere. Some of the theoretical work in this field is quite speculative, and there are a number of areas of divergence between theoretical speculations and what has been obtained experimentally.
Computer simulations play a particularly important role in the development of a theoretical understanding of quantum turbulence. They have allowed theoretical results to be checked, and simulations of vortex dynamics to be developed.
Numerical simulations of vortex tangles, basis for vortex reconnexions, connexions between bundles recently investigated.
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