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I'm studying the effect of a magnetic field on a non-conducting fluid, such as liquid oxygen or liquid hydrogen. As I know a convective flow can be driven, if the extern magnetic field is strong enough. The extern magnetic field can be uniform or nonuniform, but the effect of convection is much...

The mathematical solution is actually easy: div\vec{B}=0 with \vec{B}= \mu_0(\vec{M}+\vec{H}) \vec{H}=\begin{pmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ H_z \end{pmatrix} ,\vec{M}=\begin{pmatrix} 0 \\ 0 \\ M_z \end{pmatrix} we get \frac{dH}{dz} = -\frac{dM}{dz} But the physical explanation?!

Hello! I'm currently reading papers about ferrofluids and trying to understand the physics behind this topic. I do understand, that if we consider a vertikal temperature gradient, we get a antiparallel magnetization gradient. The ferrofluid with a the higher magnetization will move to the...