meso-grow

Meso-Grow: Put Spheres in a box

Introduction

2D mesogrow realization with penalty and overlap
A drawing from Newton's own hand from Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Book II, section VIII: Motion propagated through fluids

The following code is designed to pack circles or spheres into a rectangle or right rectangular prism to the highest density possible. The circles/spheres can be monodisperse or have a distribution of sizes. The code utilizes several techniques in order to accomplish this goal. The code is written in fortran and the data can be visualized in matlab or octave, which is an open source free version of matlab. .

Click on the following link to download the source code (meso-grow-v3.f).

Please e-mail john.borg at MU.edu with any questions you might have regarding this code.