Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2001-03-23
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
18 pages, no figures. To appear, Isaac Newton Institute Workshop Proceedings: Quantum Vortex Dynamics, August 2000, Cambridge
Scientific paper
We review the Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov (HVBK) equations for superfluid Helium turbulence and discuss their implications for recent measurements of superfluid turbulence decay. A new Hamiltonian formulation of these equations renormalizes the vortex line velocity to incorporate finite temperature effects. These effects also renormalize the coupling constant in the mutual friction force between the superfluid and normal fluid components by a factor of rho_s / \rho (the superfluid mass fraction) but they leave the vortex line tension unaffected. Thus, the original HVBK form is recovered at zero temperature and its mutual friction coefficients are renormalized at nonzero temperature. The HVBK equations keep their form and no new parameters are added. However, a temperature dependent trade-off does arise between the mutual friction coupling and the vortex line tension. The renormalized HVBK equations obtained via this new Hamiltonian approach imply a dynamical equation for the space-integrated vortex tangle length, which is the quantity measured by second sound attenuation experiments in superfluid turbulence. A Taylor-Proudman theorem also emerges for the superfluid vortices that shows the steady vortex line velocity becomes columnar under rapid rotation.
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