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We discuss an experimental technique developed to visualize quantized vortices in helium II. We illuminate micron-sized solid particles of hydrogen suspended in the fluid, and mark quantized vortex cores within the volume observed by a camera. While, under some circumstances, the particles modify vortex dynamics by the action of viscous drag and by pinning vortex intersections, we do capture basic vortex dynamics such as vortex ring decay, vortex reconnection, and superfluid turbulence.
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Bewley, G.P., Paoletti, M.S., Lathrop, D.P., Sreenivasan, K.R. (2008). Visualization of Quantized Vortex Dynamics. In: Kaneda, Y. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6472-2_25
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