A hierarchical approach to simulate the packing density of particle mixtures on a computer

Granular Matter

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 629-643

  Kolonko, Michael ^a   Raschdorf, Steffen ^a   Wäsch, Dominic ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Packing density; Particle simulation; Polydisperse particles; Space filling; Sphere packing; Systematic sampling

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; MIXTURES;

PACKING DENSITY; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; POLYDISPERSE PARTICLES; SPACE FILLING; SPHERE PACKINGS; SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84855538301     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: 14347636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-010-0216-5     Document Type: Article

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