Structural similarity between dry and wet sphere packings

CFD Simulation of Dry and Wet Pressure Drops and Flow Pattern in Catalytic Structured Packings

Type of packings and characteristics of their geometry can affect the flow behavior in the reactive distillation columns. KATAPAK SP is one the newest modular catalytic structured packings (MCSP) that has been used in the reactive distillation columns, recently. However, there is not any study on the hydrodynamics of this packing by using computational fluid dynamics. In the present work, a 3D ...

Structural properties of dense hard sphere packings.

We numerically study structural properties of mechanically stable packings of hard spheres (HS), in a wide range of packing fractions 0.53 ≤ ϕ ≤ 0.72. Detailed structural information is obtained from the analysis of orientational order parameters, which clearly reveals a disorder-order phase transition at the random close packing (RCP) density, ϕc ≃ 0.64. Above ϕc, the crystalline nuclei form 3...

Sphere Packings

This paper is a continuation of the first two parts of this series ([I],[II]). It relies on the formulation of the Kepler conjecture in [F]. The terminology and notation of this paper are consistent with these earlier papers, and we refer to results from them by prefixing the relevant section numbers with I, II, or F. Around each vertex is a modification of the Voronoi cell, called the V -cell ...

Materials and Complexity: emergence of structural complexity in sphere packings

The contemporary science of materials and condensed-matter physics is changing in response to a new awareness of the relevance of concepts associated with complexity. Scientists who design and study new materials are confronted by an ever-increasing degree of complexity, both in the materials themselves and in their synthesis. Typically, modern advanced materials are partially non-crystalline, ...

Finite Sphere Packings and Sphere Coverings