title: Packing a multidisperse system of hard disks in a circular environment.
abstract: We consider the problem of finding the densest closed packing of hard disks with proposed different radii in a circular environment, such that the radius of the circumcircle is minimal. With our approach, we are able to find denser packings for various problem instances than known from the literature. Both for the dynamics of the simulation and for the optimum values of the radii of the circumcircles, we find various scaling laws.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Johannes J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schömer