Two-dimensional soap froths and polycrystalline networks: Why are large cells many-sided?

C.W.J. Beenakker

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1987, vol. 147, issue 1, 256-267

Abstract: The correlation between the area of a cell and its number of sides found in coarsening two-dimensional networks (soap froths and polycrystalline materials) is studied both analytically and by numerical simulation. This shape-size correlation is explained as a dynamical consequence of the shape-dependent growth rate of the cells.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(87)90109-9

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