Underconstrained jammed packings of nonspherical hard particles: Ellipses and ellipsoids

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Donev, Aleksandar ^a   Connelly, Robert ^b   Stillinger, Frank H ^a   Torquato, Salvatore ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PACKING;

ELLIPSOIDS; JAMMED PACKINGS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

ALGORITHMS; PACKINGS; PARTICLES;

EID: 34347270239     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.051304     Document Type: Article

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