Propagation of disturbances in a two-phase magnetic particle dispersion (Q1317744)

The authors considered the propagation of one-dimensional vertical perturbations of the magnetic particle concentration in a liquid-particle or gas-particle disperse medium in an external uniform magnetic field, oriented parallel or antiparallel to the force of gravity. The propagation of linear disturbances and linear stability criteria for layers of magnetized particles fluidized with a gas or liquid were analyzed. The authors investigated the propagation of nonlinear long (kinematic) concentration waves in a medium containing dispersed magnetized particles. They have shown that in the kinematic wave approximation, the propagation of the nonlinear concentration perturbations can be described by the Burgers equation with analyzing the formation of regions with a sharp change in concentration (shock fronts). They found the structure of the shock front and sowed that a magnetic field leads to broadening of the shock front, results preventing the formation of concentration discontinuities and leading to the smearing of the boundaries of the inhomogeneities formed in fluidized bed. Hence, a basis for a qualitative explanation of the stabilization of developed non-uniform fluidized beds of magnetic particles in a magnetic fluid was realized by the authors.