Maximally dense packings of two-dimensional convex and concave noncircular particles

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

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Atkinson, Steven ^a   Jiao, Yang ^a   Torquato, Salvatore ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAVAIS LATTICES; CELL BIOLOGY; CENTRAL SYMMETRY; CONCAVE POLYGONS; CONVEX POLYHEDRONS; DENSE PACKING; DENSE PARTICLES; DISCRETE GEOMETRY; EUCLIDEAN SPACES; HARD PARTICLES; INHERENT SYMMETRY; MERCEDES BENZ; NON-CIRCULAR; OPTIMAL PACKING; OPTIMIZATION SCHEME; PACKING STRUCTURE; PARTICLE SHAPE; STOCHASTIC SEARCH; TUNING PARAMETER;

CYTOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84866382679     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.031302     Document Type: Article

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