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Some simple flows of a para-magnetic fluid
J.T. Jenkins
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J.T. Jenkins. Some simple flows of a para-magnetic fluid. Journal de Physique, 1971, 32 (11-12),
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SOME SIMPLE FLOWS OF A PARA-MAGNETIC FLUID
J. T. JENKINS
Laboratoire de
Physique
des Solides(*),
Faculté desSciences, 91, Orsay,
France(**) (Reçu
le 24 mai1971)
Résumé. 2014 En utilisant un
simple
modèlephénoménologique
pour le fluideparamagnétique,
nous
analysons
un écoulementparallèle
dans un tuyau. Nous examinons aussi lapossibilité
demaintenir un écoulement circulaire dans un
cylindre
par rotation d’unchamp magnétique
homo- gène.Abstract. 2014
Using
asimple
continuum model for aparamagnetic
fluid weanalyze
asimple shearing
flow andparallel
flowthrough
apipe.
We also examine thepossibility
ofmaintaining
asteady
circular flow in a circularcylinder
byrotating
ahomogeneous magnetic
field.Classification
Physics
Abstracts : 14.88, 14.19, 14.831. Introduction. -
Recently,
fluids have been pre-pared by suspending
sub-micron sizedferro-magnetic grains
in anon-magnetic, non-conducting liquid [1].
The
grains
are treated with adispersing
agent whichoperates
inconjunction
with the thermalagitation
of the
particles
to counteract thetendency
of theparticles
toagglomerate
andeventually precipitate
from solution as a result of the mutual
magnetic
forces.
Consequently,
colloidalsuspensions
of thiscomposition
are ultra-stable andbehave,
for allpractical
purposes, asnon-conducting, magnetizable
fluids. Most fluids
prepared
in this fashion are repor- ted to exhibit nomagnetic hysteresis [2]
so,although ferro-magnetic
fluids have beensynthesized [3],
wewill limit our discussion to
para-magnetic
fluids.Because of the marked
magnetic properties
of thesefluids it is
possible
to influence their behaviourby applying
amagnetic
field. Theapplication
of themagnetic
field inducesmagnetization
which interacts with aninhomogeneous magnetic
field toproduce
a
body
forceand,
in the event themagnetization
andthe
magnetic
field are notco-linear,
abody couple.
Additionally,
staticexperiments [4], [5]
indicate that the pressure distribution in theresting
fluid is modifieddue to the interaction of the
magnetization
with themagnetic field ;
whiledynamic experiments [6], [7]
show that the
general
state of stress in aparamagnetic
fluid
depends
upon measures of themagnetization
as well as upon measures of the motion and
tempe-
rature.
Conversely,
weanticipate
that in these mate-rials the local
magnetization
is influencedby
thethermal and kinematic variables as well as
by
themagnetic
field. Themagnetic
fielditself,
of course,(*) Laboratoire associé au C. N. R. S.
(**) Present address : Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Cernell University, Ithaca, New York.
depends,
inpart,
upon the distribution ofmagneti-
zation in the fluid.
A continuum
theory
formagnetic
fluids hasrecently
been
proposed [8]
in order toprovide
aformulation, including
theseunique
features ofpara-magnetic fluids,
which will serve as asimple, general
frameworkfor the
interpretation
ofexperimental
results. Asyet,
thistheory
hasonly
beenapplied
tostatic,
iso- thermal states ofpara-magnetic
fluids. Here we usethe balance laws of this
theory
inconjunction
withparticular
constitutiveassumptions
to examine somesimple
viscometric flows of a modelpara-magnetic
fluid. We
also
consider thepossibility
ofmaintaining
a
steady
rotational flow of this fluid in acylindrical
vessel
by rotating
an external field in theplane
of thecircular cross section
[9].
2.
Governing équations.
- We use cartesian tensornotation
except
where otherwise indicated. We consi- der anon-conducting magnetizable
fluid confined insome
region
V with surface 1. In the absence of electric fields and for fieldfrequencies
which aremuch less than the ratio of the
speed
oflight
c to atypical
dimension ofV,
theintegral
formsgoverning
the
magnetic
field H are, in Gaussianunits,
and
Here,
dl is a differential element oflength tangent
to thearbitrary
closed circuitB,
dS is the differentialarea
element, S
is any surfacecapping B, j
is theelectric current
density, S
is anarbitrary
closed sur-face and M is the
magnetization
per unit volume.Article published online by EDP Sciences and available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jphys:019710032011-12093100
932
For
sufficiently
smoothfields,
the local forms of(2 .1 ) and (2 . 2) are
and
At the surface Z
(2.1)
and(2.2) yield
thejump
conditions
and
Here
[j
A ...1]
==A+... - A- ...,
whereA+... (A- ...)
is the
limiting
value of the tensor A ... as E is appro- ached from the outside(inside).
The unit vector vis the outward normal to 1.
We shall find it convenient to
separate
themagnetic
field H into an external field
HO
which would bepresent
even if themagnetic
fluid were not and aself-field H’ due to the presence of the
magnetic fluid ;
soWe
regard
the externalmagnetic
field as determinedby
known distributions of electric current in theregion
exterior to V. Then that
part
of thesystem (2.3), (2.6)
which remains to be satisfiedby
the self-field iseverywhere,
within
exterior to V and
The
integral
forms for the conservation laws for mass, linear momentum, bi-vector momentum of momentum and energy are assumed to beslightly
modified forms of these obtained
by
Brown[10]
in a direct calculation for
magnetic
materials.Here V is an
arbitrary part
ofV,
p themasser
unitvolume,
pm =M, S
the surfacebounding V, t
thestress
tensor,
S n 1 theportion
of S common toE,
f the external
body
force per unitmass, f3
a dimensio-nal
constant,
1 themagnetic
stress tensor, 8 the internal energy per unit mass, q the heatflux,
and r the heatsupply
per unit mass.Superposed
dots indicate the material time derivative and bracketed indices are to beantisymmeterized.
The law of conservation of mass
(2.12)
assumesits usual form.
In the conservation law for linear momentum
(2.13)
the additional flux of linear momentum at the material
boundary
results from thediscontinuity
of the self-field due to the
discontinuity
of themagnetization
there. The volume force
density
due to the self-fieldhas been
distinguished
from the externalbody
forcewhich
includes,
forexample,
the volume force due toan external
magnetic
field.In the conservation law for bi-vector moment of momentum
(2.14)
the moment of momentum includesa contribution
arising
from thespin
of themagneti-
zation vector. We
ignore
thecomponent
of thespin
which is
parallel
to themagnetization
- asimpli-
fication which appears
plausible
whenconsidering suspensions
of either rod-like orspherical grains.
In a similar
fashion,
the flux and external volumesources of moment of momentum includes surface
and volume
couples
in addition to moments of trac- tions andbody
forces which appear in the conser-vation law for linear momentum.
The conservation law for energy
(2.15)
includes thekinetic energy associated with the moment of momen- tum of the
magnetization
and the rates ofworking
of the
generalized
surface and volume actions.We
introduce,
in the form of a balancelaw,
ageneralization
of the common constitutiveassumption relating
themagnetization
and themagnetic
field :where *
is called the intrinsicmagnetic
field.Equation (2.16)
expresses that the time rate ofchange
of themagnetization
inertia in anarbitrary
material volume is balancedby
local fieldsacting
over the surface andthroughout
the volume in addition to the macros-copic magnetic
field.For
sufficiently
smooth fields local forms of(2.13), (2.16)
may be written in the formon 1.
Here t is the
appied
surface force and L is theapplied
surface
couple.
Notice that the reduced local form
(2.19)
of thebalance of moment of momentum
requires that,
ingeneral,
the stress tensor beasymmetric.
An
entropy production inequality
of the formapplieds
to each material volume V.Here 11
is theentropy
per unit mass, p theentropy
flux vector and T thetemperature.
With sufhcient smoothness the local formof (2.24)
isThe field
equations (2.17)-(2.21),
theboundary
conditions
(2.22)
and(2.23)
and theentropy produc-
tion
inequality (2.25) apply
to anarbitrary
magne-tizable material. We must
provide
next constitutiveassumptions
whichspecify
themagneto-mechanical
nature of the material. That
is,
we must express E, il, q,w,
p, t, and l in terms of measures of themotion, magnetization
and thetemperature.
Theparticular
measures we choose will determine the
type
of beha- viour the material will exhibit. We define a para-magnetic
fluid as a material in which e, il, q,g*, p, t
and 1 aresingle
valued functions of m,m, Vx, T,
andVT. We restrict the way in which the constitutive functions may
depend
upon these variablesby requi- ring
that these functions have the same form in any two motions of the fluid which differby
a timedepen-
dent
rigid
motion - thatis,
the material response is unalteredby rigid
motions[11 ].
If we assume thatunder these transformations the
magnetization
beha-ves as an axial vector, this
requires
that theindepen-
dent variables
m
andVx
appearonly
in the combi- nationsand
where
In
addition,
the constitutive functions arerequired
to
satisfy
both the form(2.19)
of the balance law formoment of momentum and the
entropy production inequality (2.25) identically
in theindependent
variables. The first
requirement brings
the number of fieldequations
intoagreement
with the number ofunknowns ;
the secondrequirement
excludes from consideration materials in which anegative
localentropy production
ispossible [12].
Jenkins
[6]
shows that constitutive functions consistent with theserequirements
have the formwhere F is the Helmholtz free energy per unit mass.
Quantities bearing
hats are thenon-equilibrium parts
which are functions of m,m, D,
T and VTvanishing
when
m
= VT =0,
D = 0. Thesequantities
mustsatisfy, identically,
the relations934
and
3. A model
paramagnetic
fluid. - We here restrict attention to isothermalphenomena
andignore
theenergy
equation (2.20)
whichis,
ingeneral,
incom-patible
with thisassumption.
We shall consider a
simple
continuum model of anincompressible paramagnetic
fluid. The constitutive relations aredesigned
torepresent
a dilutehomoge-
,neous
suspension
ofspherical ferromagnetic grains
in which rotational motion of the
grains
due to thermalagitation
issignificant.
The
magneto-static
behavious of the fluid is assu-med to be
governed by
the free energydensity
Here the constants xo
and ms
are called the initialmagnetic susceptibility
and the saturationmagneti-
zation per unit mass
respectively. For m
=0, Vx
= 0we combine
(2. 21)
and(2. 31)
to obtainor
Consequently,
themagnetization
in theresting
fluidincreases, monotonically
withH,
so thatwhen H =
0,
and M --+MS
as H --+ oo.For the
non-equilibrium parts
of the stress and the intrinsicmagnetic
field we takeand
respectively.
Ingeneral,
the coefficients yand y
arefunctions of m. The forms
(3.4)
and(3.5) satisfy
theidentity (2.35)
while theentropy production inequality (2.36) requires
thatIn the model
paramagnetic
fluid which we considerwe specify that
where a is a constant. A consequence of the assump- tion
(3.7)
is that in asteady simple shearing
flowthe viscous
torque
at apoint
in the material(the
anti-symmetric part
of the stresstensor)
isproportional
to the number of orientated
grains
at thatpoint.
4. Two
parallel
flows. -Simple
shear. Theparallel
flow easest to treat is that of the
homogeneous
shearof an unbounded material. That is
In this
flow,
thestretching
tensor D and thespin
tensor W are
given by
and
We consider an external
magnetic
field which ishomogeneous
andacting
in theplane
of shearThen the external
body
force per unit massf, given by
vanishes.
With
(4. 1)
and(4.2)
it is natural to consider ma-gnetization
fields m which arehomogeneous
and in theplane
of shearwhere m =
m(t)
and =Â(t).
In this event, the self-field H’ is zero and the momentum
equation (2.18)
is satisfied if the pressure p is constant.
Equation (2.21) governing
themagnetization is,
with
(3.2)
and(3.1),
in what follows we
neglect
the inertia associated with themagnetization. Setting B
= 0 andusing (4.2)
and
(4. 4),
we may rewrite(4. 5)
asand
where
and a dash indicates derivatives taken with
respect
to 1 = 2
t/k.
Steady
solutions to thesystem (4.6), (4.7)
are,for Ho 1 >, 1,
and
Solution
(4.10)
can be shown to be an unstablesingular point
of(4.6), (4.7),
while(4.9)
is the stablesteady
solution. Note that for this constitutivetheory
the
angle
between themagnetization
and the externalmagnetic
fieldis,
in thissimple flow, independent
of the
magnitude
of themagnetization.
The
non-vanishing steady components
of the stress associated with the solution(4.9)
areand
The
apparent viscosity
v, definedby
is,
10r a fixed externalfield,
adecreasing
function of the rate of shear. For a fixed rate ofshear,
v increases with themagnitude
of the external field.Equation (4.13)
indicates that inpara magnetic
fluids described
by
this model the differencest Il - t33
andt22 - t33
are zero.Thus, experiments
to deter-mine the existence of normal stress effects
[13]
willtest the
validity
of the constitutivetheory (3.1), (3.4), (3 . 5) and (3 . 7).
For
H°
= 0equation (4.6)
shows thatm’ 0
and an initial
magnetization
field willalways
vanish.In this case, the
off diagonal components
of thesteady
stress aregiven by
When 0
1 HI
1 themagnetization
andthe,
stressare time
dependent.
Poiseuille flow.
McTague [6]
hasexperimentally investigated
theflow of a
paramagnetic
fluidthrough
a thin tube for orientations of the externalmagnetic
fieldparallel
to and
perpendicular
to the axis of the tube. Here weanalyse
hisexperiment,
in terms of ourmodel,
for thelongitudinal
orientation of the field.In this case, we assume that the flow
through
acylindrical
tube of radius R issteady
andparallel.
In a
cylindrical
coordinatesystem
thephysical
compo- nents of thevelocity
field arewith the conditions
When the external
magnetic
field isperpendicular
tothe axis of the tube we do not
anticipate
that thevelocity
field has thesimple
form(4.16).
For the flow
(4.16)
thenon-vanishing physical components
of thestretching
tensor and thespin
tensor are
and
respectively.
The external field
HO
isThe
magnetization
field is taken to bewhere ç =
(p(r, t)
and m =m(r, t).
The
magnetization
field(4.20)
has anon-vanishing divergence
and acomponent
normal to theboundary.
In this case,
equations (2 . 8)-(2 .11 )
indicate that aself-field will be
present.
For ancylinder
ofgreat length
there will beonly
a radialcomponent
of the self-field H’given
as a solution to(2.8)
and(2.9)- (2. 10) by
within the
cylinder,
andoutside of the
cylinder.
With the
assumptions (4.17)
and(4.20)
and theself-field
(4.22)
the linear momentumequation (2.18)
becomes
936
If we
ignore,
for the moment, the self-field(4.22)
and use
(4.19), (4.20)
and(4.21)
inequation (4.5) with fl
=0,
weobtain,
when k isreplaced by -
u’in the definitions
(4. 8)3
and(4. 8)4, equations governing
the
magnetization
of the same form as(4.6)
and(4.7). Thus,
in thisapproximation,
a stablesteady magnetization
ispossible
ifand is
given by (4.9).
Note that this condition gover-ning
thepossibility
ofobtaining steady
solutionsdepends
upon u’ =u’(r)
and may be satisfied at somevalues of r but not at others.
If we include the influence of the self-field the character of the
steady
solution is notessentially
altered.
Physically,
the self-fielddirectly
surpresses themagnitude
of the radialcomponent
of the magne- tization and induces acouple tending
toalign
themagnetization
vector in the direction of flow. Thus the self-fieldeffectively augments
the external field and actscontrary
to theorienting
influence of the flow.In what
follows,
we shall assume that thesteady
fieldof
magnetization
isadaquately
describedby (4.9).
The
non-vanishing physical components
of thestress are
and
With
and
or,
and
The
integration
constant in(4.33)
is zeroby (4.17)2.
In
principle,
we may substitute for m =m(u’)
from
(4.9) using
the modified definitions(4.8)2
and
(4. 8)3,
solve(4.33)
foru’,
andintegrate
the resul-ting
differential form to obtain thesteady velocity
field.
However, equation (4.33) integrates directly
in thelimit of
large
externalmagnetic
fields. The solution(4.9) gives m -
ms asHo --+
oo ; so uponreplacing
m
by ms in (4.33)
andintegrating,
we obtainThe volume rate of flow
Q
associated with thisvelocity
field isThus,
for amagnetic
fluid describedby
thismodel,
the coefficient J1 may be measured
in the
absence ofan external
magnetic
field. Withthis, the
coefficienta2 may
be determinedby comparing
the flow rates(for
a fixedcapillary
and pressuregradient)
in thesaturated and in the
unmagnetized
fluid.5. The
experiment
of Moskowitz andRosensweig [9].
- Moskowitz and
Rosensweig subjected
a para-magnetic
fluid contained in acylinder
to the influenceof a
homogeneous magnetic
fieldrotating uniformly
in the circular cross-section.
They
observed that anapparent steady
rotation of the fluid resulted.They
determined how a measure of this induced rotational
velocity
field was related to themagnitude
andangular velocity
of the external field. In anattempt
toexplain
this
phenomenon
Moskowitz andRosensweig
assumedthat the
paramagnetic
material was anincompressible
Newtonian fluid characterized
by
asymmetric
stresstensor linear in the
stretching
tensor.They
furtherassumed that a
body couple
was exerted on the fluidwhen the induced
magnetization
and the externalmagnetic
field were notparallel. However,
in this case, if theequation expressing
the conservation of linear momentum issatisfied,
theassumption
of asymmetric
stress tensor and the existence of external
body couples
are not consistent with the conservation of
angular
momentum.
Conversely,
if a solution to the differentialequation expressing
the conservation ofangular
momentum isobtained it will
be,
ingeneral,
inconsistent with the conservation of linear momentum Moskowitz andRosensweig (and
earlier Tsvetkov[14]
toexplain
asimilar
experiment performed
with nematicliquid crystals)
obtain asteady
rotationalvelocity
field asa solution to the balance law for
angular
momentumwhich fails to conserve linear momentum.
To
repair
this defect inapproach
we utilize themore
general
constitutivetheory (3.1)-(3.7)
whichsatisfies the
angular
momentum balance(2.19)
iden-tically.
Weattempt
to determinewhether, using
thismodel, steady
rotational flow can be induced in thecylindrical
vesselby
thehomogeneous rotating
ma-gnetic
field.The
physical components
of thevelocity
field incylindrical
coordinates are assumed to be of the formThen the
non-vanishing physical components
of thestretching
tensor and the rate of deformation tensor areand
The
homogeneous, rotating
external field isThe
physical components
of themagnetization
fieldare assumed to have the same time
dependence
asthe external field
where m =
m(r)
and ç =qJ(r) .
Again
weignore
themagnetization inertia ; and,
in this case, we
neglect entirely
the effects of the self field introducedby
the distribution ofmagnetization (5. 5).
When viewed from a frame
rotating
with the exter-nal
magnetic
fieldthe fields
(5.1), (5.4)
and(5. 5)
areindependent
of thetime :
Using equation (4.5)
astraight-forward
calculation shows that in this coordinatesystem
the values ofm and 9
corresponding
to thesteady
stable magne- tization are, when k isreplaced by
F in the definitions(4.8)2
and(4.8)3, given by (4.9).
In this case, the non
vanishing physical components
of the stress areThe
divergence
of the stress tensor,given
incylin-
drical coordinates
by
the left hand side of(4.24), (4.26),
must be balancedby
the radialcentripital
acceleration
Using (5.12), (5.14)
we obtainand
Thus the
single
valued pressure ingiven by
and
or
Again,
uponreplacing m by
ms, we mayintegrate equation (5.20)
to determine the flow field in thelimiting
case of alarge
external field. It iswhere c = Cte.
However, requireing
thevelocity
to be zero at the wall and finite at the center
yields
De Gennes
[15] was
the first to mention theapparent
impossibility
ofinducing
arotating
flow in a saturatedparamagnetic
fluidby
means of an externalmagnetic
field. The calculation here is in
agreement
with his remarks. Inversion andintegration
ofequation (5.20)
will determine whether a
steady
rotationalvelocity
can be maintained in the
general
case for the model considered here.Judging
from the behaviour in thelimiting
case, it seemsinprobable
that in thegeneral
938
case a
steady velocity
will result. Theexperimental
observations of Moskowitz and
Rosensweig might
be
explained by examining
in detail the effects of the self-field orby introducing
a morecomplicated
constitutive
theory ; however,
beforemultiplying
the mathematical diinculties it may be wisé to
repeat
theexperiment
under conditions which insurenegli-
gible
interaction betweengrains
and ahomogeneous
external
magnetic
field.Acknowledgements.
- 1 amgrateful
to ProfessorP. G. de Gennes and Dr. A. Martinet for their interest in this work. This research was
sponsored by
theDirection des Recherches et
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