For centuries, physicists and mathematicians have been trying to work out the most efficient way of packing spheres in order to minimize wasted space. They think they know how to maximise efficiency ...

Figure 1: Microstructure of random polydisperse emulsions. To understand these observations, we consider the packing problem from the granocentric point of view of a single particle in the bulk, ...

A NUMERICAL approach using a digital computer has been used to construct a simple model of the unit cell in a randomly packed bed of identical hard spheres. The cell is built up by introducing spheres ...