A systematic study of the dynamics of chain formation in electrorheological fluids
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| author | Fertid, Dávid Boda, Dezső Szalai, István |
| author_facet | Fertid, Dávid Boda, Dezső Szalai, István |
| contents | We report a systematic study of the dynamics of chain formation in electrorheological (ER) fluids using Brownian Dynamics simulations. The parameters of the system such as applied electric field, polarizability, dipole moment, friction coefficient, and number density are expressed in reduced units and changed in a wide range in order to map the system's behavior as a function of them. We define time constants obtained from bi-exponential fits to time dependence of various physical quantities such as dipolar energy, diffusion constant, and average chain length. The smaller time constant is associated with the formation of shorter chains (pairs, triplets, and so on), while the larger time constant is associated with the formation of longer chains in the regime of those that overarch the simulation cell. We use the approximation that the dipole moments are induced by the applied electric field only, as usual in the literature. However, we report preliminary results for the case when particle-particle polarization is also possible. |
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| spellingShingle | A systematic study of the dynamics of chain formation in electrorheological fluids Fertid, Dávid Boda, Dezső Szalai, István Materials Science Statistical Mechanics We report a systematic study of the dynamics of chain formation in electrorheological (ER) fluids using Brownian Dynamics simulations. The parameters of the system such as applied electric field, polarizability, dipole moment, friction coefficient, and number density are expressed in reduced units and changed in a wide range in order to map the system's behavior as a function of them. We define time constants obtained from bi-exponential fits to time dependence of various physical quantities such as dipolar energy, diffusion constant, and average chain length. The smaller time constant is associated with the formation of shorter chains (pairs, triplets, and so on), while the larger time constant is associated with the formation of longer chains in the regime of those that overarch the simulation cell. We use the approximation that the dipole moments are induced by the applied electric field only, as usual in the literature. However, we report preliminary results for the case when particle-particle polarization is also possible. |
| title | A systematic study of the dynamics of chain formation in electrorheological fluids |
| topic | Materials Science Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07380 |