STATISTICAL GEOMETRY OF PARTICLE PACKINGS .1. ALGORITHM FOR EXACT DETERMINATION OF CONNECTIVITY, VOLUME, AND SURFACE-AREAS OF VOID SPACE INMONODISPERSE AND POLYDISPERSE SPHERE PACKINGS

Authors
SASTRY S CORTI DS DEBENEDETTI PG STILLINGER FH
Citation
S. Sastry et al., STATISTICAL GEOMETRY OF PARTICLE PACKINGS .1. ALGORITHM FOR EXACT DETERMINATION OF CONNECTIVITY, VOLUME, AND SURFACE-AREAS OF VOID SPACE INMONODISPERSE AND POLYDISPERSE SPHERE PACKINGS, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 56(5), 1997, pp. 5524-5532
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physycs, Mathematical","Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics → ACNP
ISSN journal
1063651X
Volume
56
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Part
A
Pages
5524 - 5532
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-651X(1997)56:5<5524:SGOPP.>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Packings of spheres serve as useful models of the geometry of many phy sical systems; in particular, the description of the void region in su ch packings (the region not occupied by the spheres) is crucial in man y studies, The void region is, in general, composed of disconnected ca vities. We present an algorithm for decomposing void spate into caviti es and determining the exact volumes and surface areas of such cavitie s-in three-dimensional packings of monodisperse and polydisperse spher es.