Abstract
The method of images is shown to be applicable to the problem of calculating the transfer rates of interacting spherical particles, which differ in size and chemical composition. The method can be applied to any transfer problem in which the governing transport equations can be reduced to the Laplace equation and the particles have iso-potential surfaces. From a sample calculation it is found that, while particle interactions do not affect particle temperatures, they may severly affect the particle transfer rates. The effect of interactions on these transfer rates may be either positive (enhance transfer) or negative (retard transfer). Negative interaction effects may be sufficiently strong as to cause transfer reversal.
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