Related papers: Invalidation of the Kelvin Force in Ferrofluids
The Kelvin force in a layer of magnetic fluid subjected to a homogeneous magnetic field and local heating is studied. The study is motivated by the question about the corresponding Kelvin force density [M. Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2762…
It is shown that the experimental results reported in cond-mat/0010412 do not invalidate the well-known expression for the Kelvin force density in ferrofluids.
We show that attempts to modify the force on a magnetic dipole by introducing either hidden momentum or internal forces are not correct. The standard textbook result ${\bf F=\nabla(\bmu\cdot B)}$ is correct even in the presence of time…
An overview of the effect of a magnetic field gradient on fluids with linear magnetic susceptibilities is given. It is shown that two commonly encountered expressions, the magnetic field gradient force and the concentration gradient force…
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…
The force on a macroscopic polarizable body in an inhomogenous electromagnetic field is calculated for three simple exactly solvable situations. Comparing different approaches we pinpoint possible pitfalls and resolve recent confusion about…
Ferrofluids containing nonmagnetic particles are called inverse ferrofluids. On the basis of the Ewald-Kornfeld formulation and the Maxwell-Garnett theory, we theoretically investigate the magnetophoretic force exerting on the nonmagnetic…
In Ref. [1], Minkov et al. reported measurements of the magnetic moment that remains after a magnetic field is turned on and then turned off for hydride materials under high pressure in a diamond anvil cell. In Refs. [2,3], Minkov et al.…
We derive the form of the magnetic stress tensor in a completely general, stationary magnetic medium, with an arbitrary magnetization field $\vec M(\vec r)$ and free current density $\vec j(\vec r)$. We start with the magnetic force density…
The forces on individual electrons in an unscreened nondegenerate electron fluid, due to electron density fluctuations, have been calculated using Monte Carlo simulations and determined experimentally over a broad range of the plasma…
The paper presents an experimental study of the instability of a magnetic fluid layer of finite thickness covering a magnetizable metal plate exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. The critical field strength and the instability wave…
Ferrofluids currently are the only type of magnetic liquid materials with wide practical use. The theory on ferrofluids is an example of success to apply statistics to science. Ferrofluids are two-phase liquids consisting of dispersed…
The damping of sound waves in magnetized ferrofluids is investigated and shown to be considerably higher than in the non-magnetized case. This fact may be interpreted as a field-enhanced, effective compressional viscosity -- in analogy to…
We consider a ferrofluid cylinder, that is rotating with constant rotation frequency \Omega e_z as a rigid body. A homogeneous magnetic field H_0 e_x is applied perpendicular to the cylinder axis e_z. This causes a nonequilibrium situation.…
A new magnetization equation recently derived from irreversible thermodynamics is employed to the calculation of an increase of ferrofluid viscosity in a magnetic field. Results of the calculations are compared with those obtained on the…
Magnetization in highly conductive plasmas is ubiquitous to astronomical systems. Flows in such media can be described by three path functions $\Lambda_\alpha$, or, for a steady flow, by two stream functions $\lambda_\kappa$ and an…
The dipole strength of magnetic particles in a suspension is obtained by a graphical rectification of the magnetization curves based on the inverse Langevin function. The method yields the arithmetic and the harmonic mean of the particle…
The origin of the magnetic field in some systems like AGNs or GRBs is still an open question in astrophysics. A possible mechanism to explain the magnetic field generation is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, since it is able to transform…
Magnetic fields are considered to be dominant when $\epsilon_{B}\geq\epsilon_{K}$, being $\epsilon_{B}=B^{2}/8\pi$ the magnetic energy density and $\epsilon_{K}=1/2 \rho\theta^{2}$ the rotation energy density, for a conventional moderate B=…
The magnetic field dependence of the $A\to B$ transition temperature $T_{AB}$ in the superfluid $^3He$ is reconsidered in order to take into account the linear-in-field contribution beyond the approximation used in Ref.[7]. In the high…