scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1042132
Simple equations of motion are derived for a two-dimensional magnetic fluid droplet in an external magnetic field. The two-dimensionality is meant in such a way that the droplet has a rotationally symmetric ellipsoidal shape. The equations of motion take into account the shear flow inside and outside the droplet; it is supposed that the size of the droplet is small, the characteristic velocities are small, inertia and gravity terms are negligible, thus one can concentrate on surface tension and magnetic forces. The dynamics of the free surface of the droplet can be described in the framework of creeping flows. The incompressible droplet is described by its large semiaxis and angle of orientation to a given laboratory coordinate axis, the state of the external fluid is considered to be stationary. The fluid-droplet boundary conditions are evaluated for the introduced model. It turns out that the shape of the droplet is conserved, which gives rise to a possibility to derive expressions for the pressure and magnetic field inside the droplet. Using the creeping flow theory, one can connect the internal flow with the external one. From this result the author derives the rate of change in time of the large semimayor axis and of the orientation angle of the droplet using the magnetic Bond number \(B_m\) and an appropriate time scale. Numerical simulations with a fourth-order Runge-Kutta algorithm show that for \(B_m<15\), the critical field tends to infinity, the droplet follows the field and tends to an unperturbed shape. Beyond the critical value, for \(B_m= 30\), there is a special value of the rotational frequency beyond which the droplet cannot follow the change of the rotating magnetic field since the friction forces are too large. This indicates that the importance of this approach lies in the better representation of the rotational motion of the droplet caused by the shear flow inside.
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