Aggregation of magnetic holes in a rotating magnetic field.
This laboratory study experimentally examined aggregation of nonmagnetic particles in a magnetic fluid layer under a rotating magnetic field. Particles formed two-dimensional clusters that repeatedly aggregated into larger clusters, producing a broad distribution of cluster sizes. The dynamics were described as diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation and broadly consistent with dynamic scaling theory, though scaling exponents varied between experiments.
Key points
- A rotating magnetic field applied in the plane of a magnetic fluid layer induced clustering of nonmagnetic particles.
- Clusters formed as dimers, trimers, and more complex structures and then aggregated into larger clusters over time.
- The aggregation process was characterized as diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation.
- Cluster size distributions during experiments reportedly collapsed onto a single scaling curve as predicted by dynamic scaling theory.
- Scaling and crossover exponents were reported as not universal across experiments.
- Particle tracking suggested cluster motion had features of Brownian motion.
- Diffusion coefficients depended on cluster size via a power law with different exponent estimates in different experiments.
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