Instabilities and the onset of Turbulence in Bose-Einstein Condensates

The mechanism behind pulsar glitches - sudden unexplained increases in the pulsation rate despite continuous loss of angular momentum - is not well understood, but likely related to hydrodynamic instabilities that arise from underlying quantum turbulence in the nuclear superfluids within the star. I will focus on simulations at the threshold of instability and at the onset of turbulence, such as experimentally accessible Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.