Abstract
We report on observations of turbulent behavior made without requiring the use of Taylor’s ‘‘frozen turbulence’’ hypothesis. Initially, a towed grid generates homogeneous turbulence of grid Reynolds number of order within a stationary channel filled with helium II. The subsequent decay in time t of the line density of quantum vortices is measured by second sound attenuation, and the associated rms vorticity ω follows the behavior expected of a classical fluid with ω∼, consistent with the notion of a coupled turbulent state of helium II. This technique also yields the time dependence of the Kolmogorov microscale.
- Received 13 April 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2583
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