2013/10/11 by James W. Swan, Yifei Liu, Swan, James W. +3
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.3226
2 pages, 2 movies
openalex publication_date 2013/10/11 · arxiv created 2013/10/23 · arxiv updated 2013/10/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This fluid dynamics video depicts the evolution of a suspension of paramagnetic colloids under the influence of a uniform, pulsed magnetic field. At low pulse frequencies, the suspension condenses into columns which decompose via a Rayleigh-Plateau instability. At high pulse frequencies, the suspension forms a kinetically arrested, system spanning network. We demonstrate the degeneration of the Rayleigh-Plateau instability with increasing pulse frequency.