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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Interface deformations affect the orientation transition of magnetic ellipsoidal particles adsorbed at fluid-fluid
Gary B Davies1, Timm Krüger, Peter V Coveney
1Centre for Computational Science, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK. g.davies.11@ucl.ac.uk p.v.coveney@ucl.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Manufacturing new soft materials with specific optical, mechanical and magnetic properties is a significant challenge. Assembling and manipulating colloidal particles at fluid interfaces is a promising way to make such materials. We use lattice-Boltzmann simulations to investigate the response of magnetic ellipsoidal particles adsorbed at liquid-liquid interfaces to external magnetic fields. We provide further evidence for the first-order orientation phase transition predicted by Bresme and Faraudo [Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2007, 19, 375110]. We show that capillary interface deformations around the ellipsoidal particle significantly affect the tilt-angle of the particle for a given dipole-field strength, altering the properties of the orientation transition. We propose scaling laws governing this transition, and suggest how to use these deformations to facilitate particle assembly at fluid-fluid interfaces.
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