1
$\begingroup$

How to find the minimum height and width of a cylinder containing n identical spheres?

Improve this question
$\endgroup$
2
  • 2
    $\begingroup$ I misjudged this question. As asked, it is trivial, but Joseph O'Rourke's answer indicates that there is an interesting question in the background. $\endgroup$
    – Daniel Moskovich
    Commented Feb 14, 2013 at 14:35
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ See the literature on "the sausage conjecture". $\endgroup$
    – Gerry Myerson
    Commented Mar 17, 2016 at 22:35

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
5
$\begingroup$

Here is a 2012 paper whose references (and its now [Aug 2017] 26 subsequent citations) will lead you to literature on this topic:

A. Mughal, H. K. Chan, D. Weaire, and S. Hutzler. "Dense packings of spheres in cylinders: Simulations" Phys. Rev. E 85, 051305 (2012). (Journal link)

           SpheresInCylinder

Improve this answer
$\endgroup$
1
  • 2
    $\begingroup$ Another recent reference for simulation is L. Fu, William Steinhardt, H. Zhao, J.E.S. Socolarb and P. Charbonneau "Hard sphere packings within cylinders" Soft Matter, 2016,12, 2505-2514 journal link $\endgroup$
    – Paul Enta
    Commented Mar 17, 2016 at 20:24

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .