  The scattering of sound wave perturbations from vortex excitations of
Bose-Einstein condensates(BEC) is investigated by numerical integration of the
associated Klein-Gordon equation. It is found that, at sufficiently high
angular speeds, sound wave-packets can extract a sizeable fraction of the
vortex energy through a mechanism of superradiant scattering. It is conjectured
that this superradiant regime may be detectable in BEC experiments.
