The sensitivity of the vortex filament method to different reconnection models
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-30 v2 Computational Physics
Abstract
We present a detailed analysis on the effect of using different algorithms to model the reconnection of vortices in quantum turbulence, using the thin-filament approach. We examine differences between four main algorithms for the case of turbulence driven by a counterflow. In calculating the velocity field we use both the local induction approximation (LIA) and the full Biot-Savart integral. We show that results of Biot-Savart simulations are not sensitive to the particular reconnection method used, but LIA results are.
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@article{arxiv.1109.4409,
title = {The sensitivity of the vortex filament method to different reconnection models},
author = {Andrew W. Baggaley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4409},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages, 9 figures