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Velocity circulation intermittency in finite-temperature turbulent superfluid helium

Fluid Dynamics 2022-04-28 v1

Abstract

We study intermittency of circulation moments in turbulent superfluid helium by using experimental grid turbulence and numerical simulations of the Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov model. More precisely, we compute the velocity circulation Γr\Gamma_r in loops of size rr laying in the inertial range. For both, experimental and numerical data, the circulation variance shows a clear Kolmogorov scaling Γr2r8/3\langle \Gamma_r^2 \rangle \sim r^{8/3} in the inertial range, independently of the temperature. Scaling exponents of high-order moments are comparable, within error bars, to previously reported anomalous circulation exponents in classical turbulence and low-temperature quantum turbulence numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12999,
  title  = {Velocity circulation intermittency in finite-temperature turbulent superfluid helium},
  author = {Nicolás P. Müller and Yuan Tang and Wei Guo and Giorgio Krstulovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12999},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures