On the theory of transport phenomena in ferrofluids. Effect of chain-like aggregates

A.Yu. Zubarev
2013 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications  
The paper deals with the theoretical study of the effect of chain-like aggregates on diffusion and magnetophoretic transport in ferrofluids. Analysis shows that the appearance of the chains leads to a strong anisotropy of the diffusion transport -the coefficient of diffusion in the direction of applied magnetic field is significantly more than that in the perpendicular direction. The presence of the chains in a ferrofluid strongly affects the coefficient of the particle magnetophoresis.
doi:10.1016/j.physa.2012.08.007 fatcat:fgpt35d2prcmnn2jl7e5wmp7ca