Lattice Boltzmann Model for Magnetic Fluids

A lattice Boltzmann model with interacting particles was developed in order to simulate the magneto-rheological characteristics of magnetic fluids. In the frame of this model, 6 + 1 species of particles are allowed to move across a 2D triangular lattice. Among these species, 6 of them carry an individual magnetic dipole moment and interact themselves not only as a result of local collisions, as in current Lattice Boltzmann models, but also as a result of nearest neighbours magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. The relative distribution of the individual magnetic moments is determined by the intensity of an external static magnetic field acting on the whole system. This model exhibits some relevant characteristics of real magnetic fluids, i.e., anisotropic structure formation as a result of magnetic field induced gas-liquid phase transition and magnetic field dependence of the sound velocity and the attenuation coefficient.