“…There are different approaches in modeling of sintering processes, ranging from continuum phenomenological models (Abouaf et al, 1988;Duva and Crow, 1992;Cocks, 1989; Sofronis and McMeeking, 1992; Ponte Castañeda, 1991) to atomistic ones (Zeng et al, 1998;Zachariah and Carrier, 1999;Zhu and Averback, 1995;Huilong and Averback, 1996;Matsubara, 1999;Kadau et al, 2002). Growing capabilities of computational techniques increased the possibilities to employ particle sintering models.…”