The Range of Validity for the Kelvin Force
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
In a recent Letter, Luo, Du and Huang reported a novel convective instability driven by a force rarely studied before -- that exerted by an external magnetic field on a strongly magnetizable liquid. The associated physics is surprisingly rich and promises many more interesting results for the future. Unfortunately, the analysis starts from a misconception and employs the Kelvin force outside its range of validity. Since few would recognize this as a mistake, and since its consequence in the given experiment is particularly direct and critical, this is a point well worth being clarified, and clearly understood.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0010262,
title = {The Range of Validity for the Kelvin Force},
author = {Mario Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0010262},
year = {2009}
}
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