title: Nonlinear ac response of an electrorheological fluid.
abstract: The applied electric field used in most electrorheological (ER) experiments is usually quite high, and nonlinear ER effects have been measured recently. When a nonlinear ER fluid is subjected to a sinusoidal (ac) field, the electrical response will in general consist of ac fields at frequencies of the higher-order harmonics. In this paper, a self-consistent formalism has been employed to compute the induced dipole moment for ER fluids in which the suspended particles have nonlinear characteristics, in an attempt to investigate the ac response of a nonlinear ER fluid.
authors: Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
authors: J T
authors: JT
authors: Wan
authors: G Q
authors: GQ
authors: Gu
authors: K W
authors: KW
authors: Yu
mesh_terms: D004560:Electricity; D004566:Electrodes; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D015233:Models, Statistical; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics; D012212:Rheology / Q000379:methods*