We study experimentally the dynamics of drops impacting horizontal fibers and characterize the ability of these objects to capture the drops. We first show that a drop larger than a critical radius cannot be trapped by a fiber whatever its velocity. We determine this critical size as a function of the fiber radius. Then we show that for smaller drops, different situations can occur: at a low im...

We study the notion of superfluid critical velocity in one spatial dimension. It is shown that, for heavy impurities with mass M exceeding a critical mass Mc, the dispersion develops periodic metastable branches resulting in dramatic changes of dynamics in the presence of an external driving force. In contrast to smooth Bloch oscillations for M<Mc, a heavy impurity climbs metastable branches un...

When a superfluid flows past an obstacle, quantized vortices can be created in the wake above certain critical velocity. In experiment by Kwon et al. [Phys. Rev. A 91, 053615 (2015)], velocity ${v}_{c}$ was measured for atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) using moving repulsive Gaussian potential, and minimized when potential height ${V}_{0}$ of obstacle close to condensate chemical $\ensur...

BACKGROUND Doppler-tipped coronary guide-wires (FW) are well-established tools in interventional cardiology to quantitatively analyze coronary blood flow. Doppler wires are used to measure the coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR). The CFVR remains reduced in some patients despite anatomically successful coronary angioplasty. It was the aim of our study to test the influence of changes in flow ...