Predicting packing characteristics of particles of arbitrary shapes

KONA Powder and Particle Journal

Volumn 22, Issue March, 2004, Pages 82-93

  Gan, Mingle ^a   Gopinathan, Nishanth ^a   Jia, Xiaodong ^a   Williams, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELING; CONVENTIONAL ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL PACKING ALGORITHM; GEOMETRICAL PACKING; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; PACKING ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE PACKINGS; PARTICLES OF ARBITRARY SHAPES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 29444438856     PISSN: 02884534     EISSN: 21875537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14356/kona.2004012     Document Type: Article

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