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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Luca Galantucci, Mx Em Rickinson, Dr Andrew BaggaleyORCiD, Professor Nick ParkerORCiD, Professor Carlo Barenghi
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© 2023 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.When the intensity of turbulence is increased (by increasing the Reynolds number, e.g., by reducing the viscosity of the fluid), the rate of the dissipation of kinetic energy decreases but does not tend asymptotically to zero: it levels off to a nonzero constant as smaller and smaller vortical flow structures are generated. This fundamental property, called the dissipation anomaly, is sometimes referred to as the zeroth law of turbulence. The question of what happens in the limit of vanishing viscosity (purely hypothetical in classical fluids) acquires a particular physical significance in the context of liquid helium, a quantum fluid which becomes effectively inviscid at low temperatures achievable in the laboratory. By performing numerical simulations and identifying the superfluid Reynolds number, here we show evidence for a superfluid analog to the classical dissipation anomaly. Our numerics indeed show that as the superfluid Reynolds number increases, smaller and smaller structures are generated on the quantized vortex lines on which the superfluid vorticity is confined, balancing the effect of weaker and weaker dissipation.
Author(s): Galantucci L, Rickinson E, Baggaley AW, Parker NG, Barenghi CF
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Physical Review Fluids
Year: 2023
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Print publication date: 01/03/2023
Online publication date: 23/03/2023
Acceptance date: 03/03/2023
Date deposited: 17/04/2023
ISSN (electronic): 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.034605
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.034605
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