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Double Kelvin Wave Cascade in Superfluid Helium

Chaotic Dynamics 2008-10-21 v1

Abstract

We study the double cascade of energy and wave action in a local model of superfluid vortex filaments. The model is obtained from a truncated expansion of the 2D Local Induction Approximation and it is shown to support six-wave interactions. We argue that, because of the uncertainty in the vortex core profile, this model has the same status of validity as the traditionally used Biot-Savart model with cutoff, but it has advantage of being much simpler. Our minimal model leads to a wave kinetic equation for which we predict existence of two distinct power-law scaling in the spectrum, corresponding to a direct cascade of energy and an inverse one of wave action. Direct numerical simulations confirm the theoretical predictions in the weak turbulence regime.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3573,
  title  = {Double Kelvin Wave Cascade in Superfluid Helium},
  author = {G. Boffetta and A. Celani and D. Dezzani and J. Laurie and S. Nazarenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3573},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures

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