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EPL
Volume 118, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/118/14005
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- EC Euhit project [WP21]
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Filamentary regions of high vorticity irregularly form and disappear in the turbulent flows of classical fluids. We report an experimental comparative study of these so-called coherent structures in a classical vs. quantum fluid, using liquid helium with a superfluid fraction varied from 0% up to 83%. The low-pressure core of the vorticity filaments is detected by pressure probes located on the sidewall of a 78-cm-diameter von Karman cell driven up to record turbulent intensity (R-lambda similar to root Re similar or equal to 10000). The statistics of occurrence, magnitude and relative distribution of the filaments in a classical fluid are found indistinguishable from their superfluid counterpart, namely the bundles of quantized vortex lines. This suggests that the internal structure of vortex filaments, as well as their dissipative properties have a negligible impact on their macroscopic dynamics, such as lifetime and intermittent properties. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2017
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