Experimental and numerical investigations of low-temperature superfluid turbulence
Résumé
Low-temperature superfluid turbulence is studied experimentally in a Helium swirling flow and numerically with the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the geometry of the Taylor-Green (TG) vortex flow. Numerically, it was found in Nore et al. (1997a, b) that the kinetic energy transfer in the superfluid TG vortex is comparable to that of the viscous TG vortex and that the energy spectrum of the superflow is compatible with Kolmogorov's scaling. The vorticity dynamics of the superflow are similar to that of the viscous flow. In both cases, many vortex reconnection events happen throughout the flow. Experimentally, power measurements and pressure fluctuation spectra show very little difference above and far below the superfluid transition temperature, where the normal-fluid component of Helium is negligible (less than 5% in mass at T = 1.2 K).
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