Oliveira, V.M; Gomes, M.A.F - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 272 (1999) 3, pp. 294-299
The classical problem of the random packing of spheres is restudied by introducing a new type of constraint among the spheres. This is done by examining the three-dimensional packing density of an open string of spherical beads as a function of the corresponding one-dimensional density along the...