Influence of Internal Structures on the Kinetics of Ferrofluid Magnetization Reversal.

The paper presents the results of computer simulating the structure formation in nanodisperse magnetic fluids and the influence of this process on the kinetics of their magnetization reversal. The work considers a system of identical spherical single-domain ferromagnetic particles suspended in a Newtonian fluid with magnetic moments "frozen" into the particle bodies. The particles are involved in intense Brownian motion. The magnetic interactions of all particles with each other, as well as of the particles with an external magnetic field, are considered. The results have shown that the evolution of the internal structures upon a change in the external field can greatly, by several orders of magnitude, change the characteristic time of ferrofluid magnetization reversal. The results obtained may be useful for the development of both the general theory of these systems and many methods for their high-tech applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]