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Maximilien Danisch1, Yuliang Jin, Hernan A Makse
1Physics Department, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, 61 Avenue du President Wilson, 94235 Cachan, France.
Abstract:
We develop a model to describe the properties of random assemblies of polydisperse hard spheres. We show that the key features to describe the system are (i) the dependence between the free volume of a sphere and the various coordination numbers between the species and (ii) the dependence of the coordination numbers with the concentration of species; quantities that are calculated analytically. The model predicts the density of random close packing and random loose packing of polydisperse systems for a given distribution of ball size and describes packings for any interparticle friction coefficient. The formalism allows to determine the optimal packing over different distributions and may help to treat packing problems of nonspherical particles which are notoriously difficult to solve.
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