Accession Number:
AD1037474
Title:
Equilibrium Shape of Ferrofluid in the Uniform External Field
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report,01 Oct 2016,01 Apr 2017
Corporate Author:
US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground United States
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Report Date:
2017-07-14
Pagination or Media Count:
16.0
Abstract:
It is well known that the morphology of magnetic or electric ferrofluids is extremely sensitive to the applied external electromagnetic fields. Even in the static regimes, they demonstrate a variety of qualitative and quantitative transformations often mentioned as free-surface instabilities. That makes their computational modeling rather challenging. For the sake of validation and verification, there is a need for having exact solutions. Modelers noticed that quite often isolated ferrofluids take on the shape of a spheroid co-axial with the applied quasi-uniform field. There were several claims that a consistent theory allows researchers to prove that an isolated drop of ferrofluid exposed to a uniform field, indeed, has a shape of a spheroid. This report will analyze the computational algorithm that allows us to resolve this and similar problems numerically.
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Subject Categories:
- Electricity and Magnetism