Mechanically stable packing of grains with periodically spaced semicircular asperities, modeling the effects of friction near the jamming transition. Solid (striped) gray regions at the central particle's perimeter represent single (double) asperity contacts.
From the article:
Isostaticity at Frictional JammingStefanos Papanikolaou, Corey S. O’Hern, and Mark D. Shattuck
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 198002 (2013)
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