Shape and fission instabilities of ferrofluids in non-uniform magnetic fields

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.83MaRDI QIDQ5226989zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thibault Vieu, Clément Walter

Publication date 5 August 2019

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09942

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fluidsmorphological instabilitydrops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25)

Abstract: We study static distributions of ferrofluid submitted to non-uniform magnetic fields. We show how the normal-field instability is modified in the presence of a weak magnetic field gradient. Then we consider a ferrofluid droplet and show how the gradient affects its shape. A rich phase transitions phenomenology is found. We also investigate the creation of droplets by successive splits when a magnet is vertically approached from below and derive theoretical expressions which are solved numerically to obtain the number of droplets and their aspect ratio as function of the field configuration. A quantitative comparison is performed with previous experimental results, as well as with our own experiments, and yields good agreement with the theoretical modeling.

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