Convective Instability of Magnetized Ferrofluids: Influence of Magnetophoresis and Soret Effect

Details Convective Instability of Magnetized Ferrofluids: Influence of Magnetophoresis and Soret Effect Convective Instability of Magnetized Ferrofluids: Influence of Magnetophoresis and Soret Effect

2001-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106413v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

18 pages, 6 figures, To appear in "Lecture Notes in Physics" (Springer, 2001)

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Convective instability in a ferrofluid layer heated from below or from above in the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field is investigated theoretically. Convection is caused by a magnetic mechanism based on the temperature and concentration dependence of magnetization. An imposed temperature gradient establishes (by the Soret effect) a concentration gradient of magnetic particles of which the ferrofluid is composed. Both these gradients cause a spatial variation in magnetization, which induces a gradient of magnetic field intensity within the fluid layer. The field gradient induces in its turn an additional redistribution of magnetic grains due to magnetophoresis. Resulting self-consistent magnetic force tries to mix the fluid. A linear stability analysis predicts oscillatory instability in a certain region of the magnetic field strength and the fluid parameters. The instability owes magneto- and thermophoresis its origin: were the particle diffusion not operative, then only stationary instability would occur. A discovery of predicted convective oscillations is expected in ferrofluid layers about 1 mm thick, where the buoyancy mechanism is negligible and the characteristic diffusion time is not too long.

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