Spin-up flow of ferrofluids : Asymptotic theory and experimental measurements
Spin-up flow of ferrofluids : Asymptotic theory and experimental measurements
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DOI:
10.1063/1.2907221
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发表时间:
2008-05
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
A. Chaves;M. Zahn;C. Rinaldi
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作者:
A. Chaves;M. Zahn;C. Rinaldi
We treat the flow of ferrofluid in a cylindrical container subjected to a uniform rotating magnetic field, commonly referred to as spin-up flow. A review of theoretical and experimental results published since the phenomenon was first observed in 1967 shows that the experimental data from surface observations of tracer particles are inadequate for the assessment of bulk flow theories. We present direct measurements of the bulk flow by using the ultrasound velocity profile method, and torque measurements for water and kerosene based ferrofluids, showing the fluid corotating with the field in a rigid-body-like fashion throughout most of the bulk region of the container, except near the air-fluid interface, where it was observed to counter-rotate. We obtain an extension of the spin diffusion theory of Zaitsev and Shliomis, using the regular perturbation method. The solution is rigorously valid for αK⪡3∕2, where αK is the Langevin parameter evaluated by using the applied field magnitude, and provides a means ...