A computational investigation on random packings of sphere-spherocylinder mixtures

Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2284-2292

  Lu, Peng ^a   Li, Shuixiang ^a   Zhao, Jian ^a   Meng, Lingyi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aspect ratio; binary mixture; packing; packing density; sphere; spherocylinder

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; PACKING DENSITY; PREDICTION MODEL; RANDOM PACKING; RELAXATION ALGORITHM; SIMULATION RESULT; SPHERE MIXTURES; SPHEROCYLINDERS;

ALGORITHMS; ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKING; POLYDISPERSITY; SPHERES; TITRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 78649723557     PISSN: 16747348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-010-4190-z     Document Type: Article

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