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Measuring the anomalous dispersion branch of surface waves on ferrofluids

J. P. Embs1,2, C. Wagner3, K. Knorr4 and M. Lücke5

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In this paper we report on the first experimental investigation of the anomalous dispersion branch of surface waves on ferrofluids in a magnetic field. The existence of such an anomalous dispersion branch has been predicted by several authors, but there has been no experimental evidence for its existence. In our experiments we used the well-known Faraday instability of parametrically excited surface waves on a ferrofluid in the presence of a magnetic field oriented perpendicular to the fluid's surface.


PACS

75.50.Mm Magnetic liquids

47.50.Gj Instabilities

47.57.-s Complex fluids and colloidal systems

Subjects

Soft matter, liquids and polymers

Fluid dynamics

Dates

Issue 4 (May 2007)

Received 19 December 2006, in final form 3 April 2007

Published 7 May 2007



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