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Phenomenological description of sedimentation in turbulent vortex tangles
Maria Stella MongiovìDavid Jousubject
PhysicsQuantum fluidClassical mechanicsvortices turbulence superfluid turbulenceSedimentation (water treatment)Condensed Matter PhysicsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsTurbulent vortexdescription
The aim of this Brief Report is to provide a simple intuitive derivation of the results for sedimentation velocity of a small spherical particle in a counterflow vortex tangle in turbulent superfluid. When the velocity of the tangle vortex lines is small as compared to that of the particle, our results reduce to those obtained previously by other authors through more complex arguments, except for a logarithmic dependence of one of the coefficients on the vortex line density. Comparison of both derivations may be useful to clarify the range of validity of the expressions for the forces between the particle and the tangle.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-03-19 | Physical Review B |