scholarly journals Magnetic Janssen effect

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Thorens ◽  
K. J. Måløy ◽  
M. Bourgoin ◽  
S. Santucci

AbstractA pile of grains, even when at rest in a silo, can display fascinating properties. One of the most celebrated is the Janssen effect, named after the pioneering engineer who explained the pressure saturation at the bottom of a container filled with corn. This surprising behavior arises because of frictional interactions between the grains through a disordered network of contacts, and the vessel lateral walls, which partially support the weight of the column, decreasing its apparent mass. Here, we demonstrate control over frictional interactions using ferromagnetic grains and an external magnetic field. We show that the anisotropic pairwise interactions between magnetized grains result in a radial force along the walls, whose amplitude and direction is fully determined by the applied magnetic field. Such magnetic Janssen effect allows for the fine tuning of the granular column apparent mass. Our findings pave the way towards the design of functional jammed materials in confined geometries, via a further control of both their static and dynamic properties.

2021 ◽  
Vol 249 ◽  
pp. 08004
Author(s):  
Louison Thorens ◽  
Knut Jørgen Måløy ◽  
Mickaël Bourgoin ◽  
Stéphane Santucci

We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the apparent mass of a ferromagnetic granular assembly filling a cylindrical container and submitted to a magnetic field B, aligned vertically along the silo. We show that the mass of the ferromagnetic granular column depends strongly on the applied magnetic field. Notably, our measurements deviate strongly from the exponential saturation of the measured mass as a function of the true mass of the grain packing, as predicted by Janssen [H.A. Janssen, Vereins Eutscher Ingenieure Zeitschrift, 1045 (1895)]. In particular, the measured mass of tall columns decreases systematically as the amplitude of the magnetic field increases. We rationalize our experimental findings by considering the induced magnetic dipole-dipole interactions within the whole packing. We show the emergence of a global magnetic radial force along the walls of the silos, fully determined by the external magnetic field. The resulting tunable frictional interactions allows a full control of the effective mass of the ferromagnetic granular column.


Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 642
Author(s):  
Emilio Fiordilino

We study the behaviour of a charge bound on a graphene annulus under the assumption that the particle can be treated as a massless Dirac electron. The eigenstates and relative energy are found in closed analytical form. Subsequently, we consider a large annulus with radius ρ∈[5000,10,000]a0 in the presence of a static magnetic field orthogonal to its plane and again the eigenstates and eigenenergies of the Dirac electron are found in both analytical and numerical form. The possibility of designing filiform currents by controlling the orbital angular momentum and the magnetic field is shown. The currents can be of interest in optoelectronic devices that are controlled by electromagnetic radiation. Moreover, a small radial force acts upon the annulus with a stretching effect. A linearly polarized electromagnetic field propagating in the orthogonal direction is added; the time evolution of the operators show that the acceleration of the electron is proportional to the rate of change of the spin of the particle.


2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 4037-4048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helder Ferreira ◽  
Joanna Somers ◽  
Ryan Webster ◽  
Andrew Flaus ◽  
Tom Owen-Hughes

ABSTRACT Nucleosomes fulfill the apparently conflicting roles of compacting DNA within eukaryotic genomes while permitting access to regulatory factors. Central to this is their ability to stably associate with DNA while retaining the ability to undergo rearrangements that increase access to the underlying DNA. Here, we have studied different aspects of nucleosome dynamics including nucleosome sliding, histone dimer exchange, and DNA wrapping within nucleosomes. We find that alterations to histone proteins, especially the histone tails and vicinity of the histone H3 αN helix, can affect these processes differently, suggesting that they are mechanistically distinct. This raises the possibility that modifications to histone proteins may provide a means of fine-tuning specific aspects of the dynamic properties of nucleosomes to the context in which they are located.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 454-464
Author(s):  
Omar Benmiloud ◽  
Salem Arif

Abstract Dynamic equivalent (DE) is an important process of multi-area interconnected power systems. It allows to perform stability assessment of a specific area (area of interest) at minimum cost. This study is intended to investigate the dynamic equivalent of two relatively large power systems. The fourth-order model of synchronous generators with a simplified excitation system is used as equivalent to the group of generators in the external system. To improve the accuracy of the estimated model, the identification is carried in two stages. First, using the global search Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA) to find a starting set values, then this set is used as starting point for the fine-tuning made through the Pattern Search (PS) algorithm. To increase the reliability of the model’s parameters, two disturbances are used to avoid the identification based on a specific event. The developed program is applied on two standard power systems, namely, the New England (NE) system and the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) system. Simulation results confirm the ability of the optimized model to preserve the main dynamic properties of the original system with accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1037 ◽  
pp. 141-147
Author(s):  
Andrey Minaev ◽  
Juri Korovkin ◽  
Hammat Valiev ◽  
G.V. Stepanov ◽  
Dmitry Yu. Borin

Experimental studies magnetorheological elastomer specimens dynamic properties under the magnetic fields action on the vibrostend are carried out. Amplitude-frequency characteristics have been obtained. The magnetic field effect on the silicone magnetoreactive elastomers deformation properties and damping coefficients experimentally is established.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (42) ◽  
pp. 27093-27104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Schäfer ◽  
Marco Holzapfel ◽  
Alexander Schmiedel ◽  
Ulrich E. Steiner ◽  
Christoph Lambert

A series of donor–acceptor dyads with diverse meta-conjugated benzene bridges show a pronounced magnetic field dependent charge recombination.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 4031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cirtoaje ◽  
Petrescu

This article aims to study the impact of carbon nanotube dispersions in liquid crystals. A theoretical model for the system’s dynamics is presented, considering the elastic continuum theory and a planar alignment of liquid crystal molecules on the nanotube’s surface. Experimental calculation of the relaxation times in the magnetic field was made for two cases: when the field was switched on (τon), and when it was switched off (τoff). The results indicate an increase of the relaxation time by about 25% when the magnetic field was switched off, and a smaller increase (about 10%) when the field was switched on, where both were in good agreement with the theoretical values.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1160
Author(s):  
Václav Snášel ◽  
Pavla Dráždilová ◽  
Jan Platoš

Many real networks in biology, chemistry, industry, ecological systems, or social networks have an inherent structure of simplicial complexes reflecting many-body interactions. Over the past few decades, a variety of complex systems have been successfully described as networks whose links connect interacting pairs of nodes. Simplicial complexes capture the many-body interactions between two or more nodes and generalized network structures to allow us to go beyond the framework of pairwise interactions. Therefore, to analyze the topological and dynamic properties of simplicial complex networks, the closed trail metric is proposed here. In this article, we focus on the evolution of simplicial complex networks from clicks and k-CT graphs. This approach is used to describe the evolution of real simplicial complex networks. We conclude with a summary of composition k-CT graphs (glued graphs); their closed trail distances are in a specified range.


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