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Investigating the Three-dimensional Flow Separation Induced by a Model Vocal Fold Polyp
Published on: February 3, 2014
Unified model for vortex-string network evolution
C J A P Martins1, J N Moore, E P S Shellard
1Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas s/n, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal. C.J.A.P.Martins@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Abstract:
We describe and numerically test the velocity-dependent one-scale string evolution model, a simple analytic approach describing a string network with the averaged correlation length and velocity. We show that it accurately reproduces the large-scale behavior (in particular the scaling laws) of numerical simulations of both Goto-Nambu and field theory string networks. We explicitly demonstrate the relation between the high-energy physics approach and the damped and nonrelativistic limits which are relevant for condensed matter physics. We also reproduce experimental results in this context and show that the vortex-string density is significantly reduced by loop production, an effect not included in the usual "coarse-grained" approach.
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