Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Vol.82, No.12, 2196-2200, 2010
Simulation of Adhesion Forces Based on van der Waals Interactions between Rough Particles and Smooth Walls in Gaseous Environment
A computer program is presented that can be used to calculate adhesion force distributions of irregularly shaped particles. Basis is the calculation of the single interactions between the involved atoms respectively molecules of the contact partners and overlapping these to a resultant whole interaction. The example of roughness shows that extremely bimodal distributions can arise for identical particles.