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Gases and Fluids

On the absence of charge symmetry in electrostatic interaction between charged drops and hard particles

A. I. Grigor'ev

P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University

Abstract: It is shown that the analytical expressions for the energy and force of electrostatic interaction between charged conducting particles (drops), a point charge, and a finite-size particle, as well as between a particle (a drop or a point charge) and a conducting plane, are asymmetric with respect to the sign of one of the charges. This is because the polarization interaction is always attractive irrespective of the signs of interacting particles. The absence of this symmetry leads to the self-constriction of charged aerodispersed systems containing a condensed phase, for example, plasma or liquid-droplet systems.

Received: 10.09.2009

 English version: Technical Physics, 2010, 55:5, 666–671

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