{"id":93680,"date":"2019-07-15T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/researchers-develop-computer-model-of-ferrofluid-motion"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:22:56","slug":"researchers-develop-computer-model-of-ferrofluid-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/researchers-develop-computer-model-of-ferrofluid-motion","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop computer model of ferrofluid motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-computer-model-of-ferrofluid-motion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferrofluids, with their mesmeric display of shape-shifting spikes, are a favorite exhibit in science shows. These eye-catching examples of magnetic fields in action could become even more dramatic through computational work that captures their motion.<\/p>\n<p>A KAUST research team has now developed a computer model of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ferrofluid\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ferrofluid<\/a> motion that could be used to design even grander ferrofluid displays. The work is a stepping stone to using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/simulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">simulation<\/a> to inform the use of ferrofluids in broad range of practical applications, such as medicine, acoustics, radar-absorbing materials and nanoelectronics.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrofluids were developed by NASA in the 1960s as a way to pump fuels in low gravity. They comprise nanoscale magnetic particles of iron-laden compounds suspended in a liquid. In the absence of a magnetic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">field<\/a>, ferrofluids possess a perfectly smooth surface. But when a magnet is brought close to the ferrofluid, the particles rapidly align with the magnetic field, forming the characteristic spiky appearance. If a magnetic object is placed in the ferrofluid, the spikes will even climb the object before cascading back down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrofluids, with their mesmeric display of shape-shifting spikes, are a favorite exhibit in science shows. These eye-catching examples of magnetic fields in action could become even more dramatic through computational work that captures their motion. A KAUST research team has now developed a computer model of ferrofluid motion that could be used to design even [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}