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D E Zmeev1,2, P M Walmsley1, A I Golov1, P V E McClintock2, S N Fisher2, W F Vinen3.
Abstract
We compare the decay of turbulence in superfluid ^{4}He produced by a moving grid to the decay of turbulence created by either impulsive spin-down to rest or by intense ion injection. In all cases, the vortex line density L decays at late time t as L∝t^{-3/2}. At temperatures above 0.8 K, all methods result in the same rate of decay. Below 0.8 K, the spin-down turbulence maintains initial rotation and decays slower than grid turbulence and ion-jet turbulence. This may be due to a decoupling of the large-scale superfluid flow from the normal component at low temperatures, which changes its effective boundary condition from no-slip to slip.Year: 2015 PMID: 26550733 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.155303
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161