0 present participle of collide
1 (especially of moving objects) to hit something violently:
The two vans collided at the crossroads.
It was predicted that a comet would collide with one of the planets.
The subscript 1 refers to the molecules under consideration and the subscript 2 refers to all other colliding particles.
In these cases, the system may be described as a gas of colliding particles.
The collision module has the role of obtaining the possible pairs of bodies that are colliding.
We have also calculated the maximum run-up amplitude of two colliding waves.
As expected in the case of several pacemakers generated simultaneously in a near neighbourhood, annihilation of colliding wave occurs whenever proper spatial phases meet.
The resonance appears to be caused by a temporary trapping of the colliding electron in a quasi-bound orbit just above the ionization limit.
This arrangement leads to a good interpenetration of the two plasmas because of higher relative velocities than in the case of laterally colliding plasmas.
The type of soliton interaction depends on the parameters (amplitude, phase, velocity) of the colliding solitons.