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Equilibrium statistics of a vortex filament with applications

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The thermodynamic functions and scaling exponents (including the Kolmogorov and Flory exponents) of a vortex filament in thermal equilibrium are calculated, giving a quantitative content to earlier qualitative analyses. The numerical results uncover a percolation property of vortex filaments near the maximum entropy state. The implications of the results for the onset of turbulence, for the structure of its inertial range, and for superfluid vortices are discussed. In particular, it is shown that vortex stretching pushes a vortex system to a polymeric state and a Kolmogorov spectrum.

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

This work was supported in part by the Applied Mathematical Sciences subprogram of the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC03-76SF-00098, and in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number DMS89-19074

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Chorin, A.J. Equilibrium statistics of a vortex filament with applications. Commun.Math. Phys. 141, 619–631 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02102820

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