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Theory of cylindrical dense packings of disks
Adil Mughal, Denis Weaire
We have previously explored cylindrical packings of disks and their relation to sphere packings. Here we extend the analytical treatment of disk packings, analysing the rules for p…
Packing of softly repulsive particles in a spherical box - a generalised Thomson problem
A. Mughal
We study the (near or close to) ground state distribution of N softly repelling particles trapped in the interior of a spherical box. The charges mutually interact via an inverse p…
Compaction of cereal grain
J. Wychowaniec, I. Griffiths, A. Gay +1
We report on simple shaking experiments to measure the compaction of a column of Firth oat grain. Such grains are elongated anisotropic particles with a bimodal polydispersity. In…
Screw symmetry in columnar crystals
A. Mughal
We show that the optimal packing of hard spheres in an infinitely long cylinder yields structures characterised by a screw symmetry. Each packing can be assembled by stacking a bas…