Theory and simulation of anisotropic pair correlations in ferrofluids in magnetic fields

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Elfimova, Ekaterina A ^a   Ivanov, Alexey O ^a   Camp, Philip J ^b  

^a URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CORRELATED PAIRS; DIPOLAR COUPLINGS; FERROFLUID; GAUSSIAN DENSITY; HARD-SPHERE MODELS; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; MAGNETIC PARTICLE; PAIR CORRELATIONS; PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SEPARATION VECTORS; SIMULATION DATA; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS; STRUCTURE FACTORS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; WAVE VECTOR;

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; METALLIC GLASS; SPHERES;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84861714110     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4717718     Document Type: Article

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