Magnitnye zhidkosti (MZh), ispol'zuemye v promyshlennosti, nauke i tekhnike, kak pravilo, podvergayutsya vozdeystviyu vneshnikh neodnorodnykh magnitnykh poley, privodyashchikh k ikh kontsentratsionnomu rassloeniyu pod deystviem magnitoforeza. Magnitoforez - eto dreyf kolloidnykh chastits v oblast' s naibol'shey napryazhennost'yu magnitnogo polya. Edinstvennym mekhanizmom, vyravnivayushchim kontsentratsionnoe rassloenie v magnitnoy zhidkosti, yavlyaetsya kontsentratsionnaya diffuziya. Konechnoe raspredelenie kontsentratsii magnitnoy fazy formiruetsya v rezul'tate konkurentsii ikh dvukh mekhanizmov massoperenosa. Predlagaemaya monografiya soderzhit opisanie eksperimental'nogo issledovaniya magnitoforeza v MZh. Predlozheny teoreticheskie modeli, udovletvoritel'no opisyvayushchie eksperiment. Kniga mozhet byt' polezna inzheneram, razrabatyvayushchim ustroystva na osnove magnitnoy zhidkosti, a takzhe uchenym i issledovatelyam, izuchayushchim fizicheskie svoystva magnitnykh kolloidov.