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Packing Spheres into a Thin Cylinder

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tuberadius
sphereradius
1
stacking plane angle
0.
sphere opacity
0.6
spheres
8
The densest packing of spheres with radius
r
in a cylinder of radius
R
, where
R≥r
, is a challenging problem. This Demonstration provides the optimal packing for small ratios of
R/r
and upper bounds that show dense packings up to
R/r=3
.
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