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Nonlinear ER effects in an ac applied field

Soft Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The electric field used in most electrorheological (ER) experiments is usually quite high, and nonlinear ER effects have been theoretically predicted and experimentally measured recently. A direct method of measuring the nonlinear ER effects is to examine the frequency dependence of the same effects. For a sinusoidal applied field, we calculate the ac response which generally includes higher harmonics. In is work, we develop a multiple image formula, and calculate the total dipole moments of a pair of dielectric spheres, embedded in a nonlinear host. The higher harmonics due to the nonlinearity are calculated systematically.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0102063,
  title  = {Nonlinear ER effects in an ac applied field},
  author = {Jones T. K. Wan and G. Q. Gu and K. W. Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0102063},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Presented at Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2000), held at Gold Coast, Australia from 3-8, December 2000

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