Structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of ferrofluids

Abstract

A survey of recent work on the structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of ferrofluids is given. The emphasis is on new theoretical descriptions and computer simulations of simple models of colloidal ferromagnetic nanoparticles, but some favourable comparisons with experiments are shown to justify the choices of models. The survey summarises combined theoretical and computational studies of field-induced microstructure in ferrofluids, magnetisation curves, static and dynamic initial magnetic susceptibilities, thermodynamic properties, and sedimentation profiles. © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG.