3 papers
cond-mat.dis-nn2002
Packing-limited growth of irregular objects
Peter Sheridan Dodds, Joshua Weitz
We study growth limited by packing for irregular objects in two dimensions. We generate packings by seeding objects randomly in time and space and allowing each object to grow unti…
cond-mat.soft2002
Packing-Limited Growth
Peter Sheridan Dodds, Joshua S. Weitz
We consider growing spheres seeded by random injection in time and space. Growth stops when two spheres meet leading eventually to a jammed state. We study the statistics of growth…
physics.bio-ph2000
Re-examination of the "3/4-law" of Metabolism
Peter Sheridan Dodds, Daniel H. Rothman, Joshua S. Weitz
We examine the scaling law which connects organismal metabolic rate with organismal mass , where is commonly held to be 3/4. Since simple dimensional ana…