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      Vortex shedding in a model of superflow

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          The present article represents part of the PhD. dissertation by C. Josserand. We discuss the nucleation of quantized vortices in the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLS) for a flow around a disk in two spatial dimensions. It appears that the vortices are nucleated when the flow becomes locally (at the edge of the disk) supersonic. A detailed study of the phase equation for the complex field \(\psi\) gives an Euler-Tricomi type equation for the stationary solutions below threshold. This equation is closely related to the one known in shock wave dynamics for gas. Then using solvability condition, we extract a time-dependent scenario for the evolution of the amplitude of the solution, which we, finally, relate to a known family solution of NLS which gives rise to a vortex nucleation. We also give a first order correction at the Landau velocity of nucleation, taking into account the geometry of the flow.

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          28 January 1999
          Article
          10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00066-4
          physics/9901055
          10828024-5b00-4a3e-a6eb-ed33f8a98722
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          25 pages, 9 figures
          physics.flu-dyn cond-mat.stat-mech

          Condensed matter,Thermal physics & Statistical mechanics
          Condensed matter, Thermal physics & Statistical mechanics

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