On particle-particle interactions in solid, non-conducting impurity removal
Abstract
A whole boundary-integral formulation is proposed to determine the rigid-body motions of two solid and insulating particles, freely-suspended in a metal liquid and subject to uniform ambient electric and magnetic fields. As revealed by our numerical results, particle-particle interactions may become significant for close enough bodies. © 2003 Académie des sciences. Published by Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.