“…Such unique characteristic makes it possible to be used as supporting and damping elements in dampers [3,4] and other separation applications [5]. Until now, several types of ferrofluid dampers have been proposed and investigated [6], including the piston type dampers [7,8], active ferrofluid dampers [9], brakes [10], shock absorbers [11,12], tuned liquid dampers [13,14], smart colloidal dampers [15], porous elastic sheet dampers [16] and the simple ferrofluid dampers [3,17,18]. In several of these ferrofluid dampers, permanent magnets as the moving parts are suspended relying on magnetic levitation force exerted on them immersed in ferrofluid.…”