Abstract: In this study, the electrostatic adhesive contact between a smooth indenter with a power-law geometry and an elastic half-space is studied using both a theoretical and numerical approach. Both the indenter and substrate ...

Abstract: Abstract. In Persson’s seminal work on tire–road interaction (Persson, 2001, “Theory of Rubber Friction and Contact Mechanics,” J. Chem. Phys. 115(8), pp. 3840–3861), he ingeniously derived a diffusion equation in Appendix ...