Hard ellipsoid model

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A prolate ellipsoid.

Interaction Potential

The general ellipsoid, also called a triaxial ellipsoid, is a quadratic surface which is given in Cartesian coordinates by

where , and define the lengths of the axis.

Overlap algorithm

The most widely used overlap algorithm is that of Perram and Wertheim:

Geometric properties

The mean radius of curvature is given by (Refs. 2 and 3)

and the surface area is given by

where is an elliptic integral of the first kind and is an elliptic integral of the second kind, with the amplitude being

and the moduli

and

where the anisotropy parameters, and , are

and

The volume of the ellipsoid is given by the well known

Mathematica notebook file for calculating the surface area and mean radius of curvature of an ellipsoid

See also

References

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