Abstract
We perform a numerical analysis of superfluid turbulence produced by thermal counterflow in He II by using the vortex filament model. Counterflow in a low aspect ratio channel is known to show the transition from laminar flow to the two turbulent states TI and TII. The present understanding is that the TI has the turbulent superfluid and the laminar normal fluid but both fluids are turbulent in the TII state. This work studies the vortex tangle in the TI state. Solid boundary condition is applied to walls of a square channel, and the velocity field of the normal fluid is prescribed to be a laminar Poiseuille profile. An inhomogeneous vortex tangle, which concentrates near the solid boundaries, is obtained as the statistically steady state. It is sustained by its characteristic space-time oscillation. The inhomogeneity of the vortex tangle shows the characteristic dependence on temperature, which is caused by two effects, namely the profile of the counterflow velocity and the mutual friction.
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