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The 2-3-4 spike competition in the Rosensweig instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2019

A. N. Spyropoulos Open the ORCID record for A. N. Spyropoulos [Opens in a new window] ,
A. G. Papathanasiou Open the ORCID record for A. G. Papathanasiou [Opens in a new window]  and
A. G. Boudouvis Open the ORCID record for A. G. Boudouvis [Opens in a new window]
A. N. Spyropoulos
Affiliation:
School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens 15780, Greece
A. G. Papathanasiou
Affiliation:
School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens 15780, Greece
A. G. Boudouvis*
Affiliation:
School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens 15780, Greece
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†Email address for correspondence: boudouvi@chemeng.ntua.gr
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Abstract

The horizontal free surface of a magnetic liquid (ferrofluid) pool turns unstable when the strength of a vertically applied uniform magnetic field exceeds a threshold. The instability, known as normal field instability or Rosensweig’s instability, is accompanied by the formation of liquid spikes either few, in small diameter pools, or many, in large diameter pools; in the latter case, the spikes are arranged in hexagonal or square patterns. In small pools where only few spikes – 2, 3 or 4 in this work – can be accommodated, their appearance/disappearance/re-appearance observed in experiments, as applied field strength varies, is investigated by computer-aided bifurcation and linear stability analysis. The equations of three-dimensional capillary magneto-hydrostatics give rise to a three-dimensional free boundary problem which is discretized by the Galerkin/finite element method and solved for multi-spike surface deformation coupled with magnetic field distribution simultaneously with a compact numerical scheme based on Newton iteration. Standard eigenvalue problems are solved in the course of parameter continuation to reveal the multiplicity and the stability of the emerging deformations. The computational predictions reveal selection mechanisms among equilibrium states and explain the corresponding experimental observations and measurements.

JFM classification

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Bifurcation MHD and Electrohydrodynamics: Magnetic fluids Instability: Nonlinear instability
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JFM Papers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 870 , 10 July 2019 , pp. 389 - 404
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press 

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