Apollonian packings as physical fractals

Molecular Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2663-2669

  Varrato, Francesco ^a   Foffi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

algorithm; Apollonian packing; fractal dimension; physical fractal

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; FINITE INTERVALS; FINITE SIZE EFFECT; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCALE-FREE; SPACE-FILLING;

ALGORITHMS; SPHERES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 84856918773     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: 13623028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2011.630598     Document Type: Article

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