Publication Date
2008
Journal or Book Title
Physics Review B
Abstract
As long as vorticity quantization remains irrelevant for long-wave physics, superfluid turbulence supports a regime macroscopically identical to the Kolmogorov cascade of a normal liquid. At high enough wave numbers, the energy flux in wavelength space is carried by individual Kelvin-wave cascades on separate vortex lines. We analyze the transformation of the Kolmogorov cascade into the Kelvin-wave cascade, revealing a chain of three distinct intermediate cascades supported by local-induction motion of the vortex lines and distinguished by specific reconnection mechanisms. The most prominent qualitative feature predicted is unavoidable production of vortex rings of a characteristic size.
Volume
77
Issue
6
Recommended Citation
Kozik, E and Svistunov, Boris, "Kolmogorov and Kelvin-wave cascades of superfluid turbulence at T=0: What lies between" (2008). Physics Review B. 1200.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/1200
Comments
This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v77/i6/e060502