What is it about?
It is possible to excite convection in non-isothermal ferrofluid placed in an external magnetic field even in the absence of gravity (Archimedean buoyancy). In the presence of gravity mixed convection arises in the form of thermo-magnetic waves.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
If a ferrofluid is chosen as a heat carrier, it can be used for thermal management in gravity free (space stations) or extreme confinement (microelectronics) conditions where natural convection cannot develop.
Perspectives
The problem is of interest from a fundamental hydrodynamic stability point of view.
Professor Sergey A. Suslov
Swinburne University of Technology Department of Mathematics
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Thermomagnetic convection in a vertical layer of ferromagnetic fluid, Physics of Fluids, August 2008, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/1.2952596.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
