Mean-field theory of random close packings of axisymmetric particles

Adrian Baule, Romain Mari, Lin Bo, Louis Portal and Hernán A. Makse ()
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Adrian Baule: City College of New York
Romain Mari: City College of New York
Lin Bo: City College of New York
Louis Portal: City College of New York
Hernán A. Makse: City College of New York

Nature Communications, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract Finding the optimal random packing of non-spherical particles is an open problem with great significance in a broad range of scientific and engineering fields. So far, this search has been performed only empirically on a case-by-case basis, in particular, for shapes like dimers, spherocylinders and ellipsoids of revolution. Here we present a mean-field formalism to estimate the packing density of axisymmetric non-spherical particles. We derive an analytic continuation from the sphere that provides a phase diagram predicting that, for the same coordination number, the density of monodisperse random packings follows the sequence of increasing packing fractions: spheres

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3194

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