The larger magnetic particles in ferrofluids are known to form chains, causing the fluid to display non-Newtonian behavior. In this paper, a generalization of the familiar ferrofluid-dynamics by Shliomis is shown capable of realistically accounting for these fluids. The modification consists of identifying the relaxing magnetization as that of the chain-forming particles, while accounting for the free magnetic particles by dissipative terms in the Maxwell equations. for LaTeX users @article{SMahle2008-77, author = {S. Mahle and P. Ilg and M. Liu}, title = {Hydrodynamic theory of polydisperse, chain-forming ferrofluids}, journal = {Phys. Rev. E}, volume = {77}, pages = {016305}, year = {2008} }
\bibitem{SMahle2008-77} S. Mahle, P. Ilg, M. Liu, Hydrodynamic theory of polydisperse, chain-forming ferrofluids, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 77} (2008) 016305 (6 pages).SMahle2008-77 S. Mahle, P. Ilg, M. Liu Hydrodynamic theory of polydisperse, chain-forming ferrofluids Phys. Rev. E,77,2008,016305 (6 pages) |