Imagine placing oranges or tennis balls into a rigid container. How can the balls be arranged such that they occupy the largest volume fraction of the container, otherwise known as the largest packing ...

Researchers show that, unlike the crystalline close packing of spheres, random close packing or jamming of spheres in a container can take place in a broad range of densities and anisotropies.

Heats of fusion of inert gases can be calculated using a random close packed model of the liquid and intermolecular potential functions of the Lennard-Jones 6–12 type. Experimental agreement is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract One-dimensional random packing, known as the car-parking problem, was first analyzed by Rényi (1958). A stochastic version of Kakutani's (1975 ...