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Mutual Forces Acting on Chains of Particles

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This paper describes a method to determine mutual forces acting between dielectric particles, which form chains. The Maxwell stress tensor method together with finite element method are used. It is shown that particles placed in inhomogeneous field, because of dielectrophoretic forces acting between them, have a tendency to collect one by one giving in effect even long particles chains. In this article, Maxwell stress tensors are integrated over particle surfaces to give total mutual forces interacting between molecules.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Power Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Eugeniusz Kurgan & Piotr Gas

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Kurgan, E., Gas, P. (2018). Mutual Forces Acting on Chains of Particles. In: Mazur, D., Gołębiowski, M., Korkosz, M. (eds) Analysis and Simulation of Electrical and Computer Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 452. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63949-9_23

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