Energy Spectrum of Superfluid Turbulence with No Normal-Fluid Component
Abstract
The energy of superfluid turbulence without the normal fluid is studied numerically under the vortex filament model. Time evolution of the Taylor-Green vortex is calculated under the full nonlocal Biot-Savart law. It is shown that for k<2π/l the energy spectrum is very similar to the Kolmogorov's -5/3 law which is the most important statistical property of the conventional turbulence, where k is the wave number of the Fourier component of the velocity field and l is the average intervortex spacing. The vortex length distribution converges to a scaling property reflecting the self-similarity of the tangle.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.145301
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0201405
- Bibcode:
- 2002PhRvL..89n5301A
- Keywords:
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- 67.40.Vs;
- 67.40.Bz;
- Vortices and turbulence;
- Phenomenology and two-fluid models;
- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter;
- Nonlinear Sciences - Chaotic Dynamics;
- Physics - Fluid Dynamics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett