Reconnection of superfluid vortex bundles
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Using the vortex filament model and the Gross Pitaevskii nonlinear Schroedinger equation, we show that bundles of quantised vortex lines in helium II are structurally robust and can reconnect with each other maintaining their identity. We discuss vortex stretching in superfluid turbulence and show that, during the bundle reconnection process, Kelvin waves of large amplitude are generated, in agreement with the finding that helicity is produced by nearly singular vortex interactions in classical Euler flows.
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@article{arxiv.0809.4746,
title = {Reconnection of superfluid vortex bundles},
author = {Sultan Z. Alamri and Anthony J. Youd and Carlo F. Barenghi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4746},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 7 figures