9-3 Lennard-Jones potential

Functional form

The 9-3 Lennard-Jones potential is related to the standard Lennard-Jones potential.

It takes the form:

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Applications

It is commonly used to model the interaction between the particles of a fluid with a flat structureless solid wall.