Research

Sphere Packing in Cylinders

Packing of hard and soft spheres in cylinders.

Thomson Problem

Minimal energy arrangement of confined charges.

Buckling of a linear chain

Equilibrium configurations of hard spheres in a cylindrical harmonic potential.

Scutoids

Demonstration and interpretation of “scutoid” cells in a quasi-2D soap froth

Phyllotaxis

Packing of buds on a growing meristem

Corbino Disk

Laminar Flow of a Sheared Vortex Crystal: Scars in Flat Geometry