Papers Published

1. Tarabara, V.V. and Wiesner, M.R., Effect of collision efficiency on the evolution of the surface of diffusion-limited deposits, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 237 no. 1 (2001), pp. 150 - 151 [7479] .
   (last updated on 2007/04/09)

   Abstract:
   The effect of the collision efficiency of particles deposited onto a rough substrate and the evolution of the deposit profile were investigated using 2D on-lattice Monte Carlo simulations. The case of a diffusive long-range transport regime as representative of the colloidal deposition from the suspended phase was considered. The initial profile of the substrate was modeled as a sinusoidal wave. The decay of the initial profile in the course of deposition was monitored by a decrease in the Fourier amplitude A_w corresponding to the wavelength of the initial roughness. The best "memory" of the deposit, i.e., the slowest decay of A_w was found to correspond to intermediate values ( [similar to] 0.1) of the collision efficiency. © 2001 Academic Press.

   Keywords:
   Monte Carlo methods;Decay (organic);Surface roughness;Deposition;