Imagine placing oranges or tennis balls into a rigid container. How can the balls be arranged such that they occupy the largest volume fraction of the container, otherwise known as the largest packing ...

Heats of fusion of inert gases can be calculated using a random close packed model of the liquid and intermolecular potential functions of the Lennard-Jones 6–12 type. Experimental agreement is ...

In math, the search for optimal patterns never ends. The sphere-packing problem — which asks how to cram balls into a (high-dimensional) box as efficiently as possible — is no exception. It has ...