Macroscopic Theories of Superfluids

This book is based on lectures delivered at a meeting organised by the academia Nazionale dei Lincei with contributions from some of the leading research workers in the field.

G. Grioli (Edited by)

9780521095945, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2009

224 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg

This book is based on lectures delivered at a meeting organised by the academia Nazionale dei Lincei with contributions from some of the leading research workers in the field. They deal with topics of contemporary interest such as: solitons, hydrodynamic and nonlinear problems in superfluids, turbulence, thermodynamics, first and second sound, and the comparison between superconductivity and superfluidity. Experimental results and theoretical considerations are included. Thus the book will be an invaluable survey for research workers in superfluidity.

Foreword G. Grioli
1. Opening Address E. Amaldi
2. Elementary Excitations of Nonlinear Classical Fields and the Theory of Superfluid He4 S. J. Putterman and P. H. Roberts
4. Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Superfluid 4He: Classic and recent experiments M. Cerdonio
5. Some Hydrodynamic Problems of Liquid Helium H. Borner, W. Fiszdon, W. Poppe and H. Vogel
6. Extended Thermodynamics and Second Sound in He II I. Muller
7. High Frequency First Sound Waves Propagating near the Normal Superfluid Transition in 4He Liquid: a comparison between experiments and the classical critical dynamic theories F. Vidal
8. Hyperbolicity and Symmetric Form of the Superfluid Equations G. Boillat
9. Phenomenological Theories of Superconductivity and Superfluidity M. Fabrizio
10. Macroscopic Approach to Strongly Degenerate Gases via Extended Thermodynamics T. Ruggeri
11. Nonlinear Effects Associated with Second Sound in Solids B. C. Coleman, W. H. Hrousa, D. C. Newman and D. R. Owen
12. Some Nonlinear Phenomena in Superfluid Helium R. J. Atkin and N. Fox.

Subject Areas: Applied mathematics [PBW]