Reply to “Comment on the use of the method of images for calculating electromagnetic responses of interacting spheres”

J. P. Huang, K. W. Yu, G. Q. Gu, M. Karttunen, and L. Dong
Phys. Rev. E 72, 023402 – Published 11 August 2005

Abstract

In this Reply, we use the data offered in the Comment by Markel [Phys. Rev. E. 72, 023401 (2005)] to investigate the electrorotation and dielectrophoretic spectra of dielectric particles such as biological cells discussed in our two papers [Phys. Rev. E. 65, 021401 (2002); 69, 051402 (2004)]. We find that the numerical results predicted by our method and Markel’s method are in good agreement. Therefore, this further shows the validity of our approximation method for dielectric particles and that the Comment by Markel does not affect the significance of the two papers.

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  • Received 7 June 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.72.023402

©2005 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. P. Huang1, K. W. Yu1, G. Q. Gu1,2, M. Karttunen3, and L. Dong1,3

  • 1Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
  • 2College of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • 3Biophysics and Statistical Mechanics Group, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 9203, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland

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See Also

Electrorotation of a pair of spherical particles

J. P. Huang, K. W. Yu, and G. Q. Gu
Phys. Rev. E 65, 021401 (2002)

Electrokinetic behavior of two touching inhomogeneous biological cells and colloidal particles: Effects of multipolar interactions

J. P. Huang, Mikko Karttunen, K. W. Yu, L. Dong, and G. Q. Gu
Phys. Rev. E 69, 051402 (2004)

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