pith. sign in

arxiv: 0810.3573 · v1 · submitted 2008-10-20 · 🌊 nlin.CD

Double Kelvin Wave Cascade in Superfluid Helium

classification 🌊 nlin.CD
keywords modelwavecascadeactiondirectdoubleenergylocal
0
0 comments X
read the original 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.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.