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

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.83zbMATH Open1419.76229arXiv1711.09942OpenAlexW3176718267MaRDI QIDQ5226989FDOQ5226989

Clément Walter, Thibault Vieu

Publication date: 5 August 2019

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

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.

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

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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)

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