Published September 30, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Energy spectrum of superfluid turbulence with no normal-fluid component

  • 1. Department of Physics, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi-Ku, Osaka 558-8585 (Japan)
  • 2. Institute of Thermophysics, Academy of Science, Novosibirsk 630090 (Russian Federation)

Description

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

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
89
Journal Issue
14
Journal Page Range
p. 145301-145301.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35024212
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
ENERGY SPECTRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERFLUIDITY; TURBULENCE; VORTICES
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICS; SPECTRA

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society