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Kenneth Desmond
We present \texttt{rcpgenerator}, an openly available code for generating $d$-dimensional dense, disordered, non-overlapping close packings from an arbitrary prescribed list of particle diameters. The method adapts the Clarke--Wiley inflation protocol, but instead uses the Adam optimizer to relax the particle configuration. Typically, particle coordinates are advanced with a single, global step size, which must shrink as the size ratio $S\equiv D_{\max}/D_{\min}$ grows, generally stalling the optimization. Adam instead gives each coordinate its own adaptive step size, stabilizing the optimization time across a broader range of $S$. We demonstrate this in three-dimensional periodic tests that reach $S\sim5\times10^{5}$ for a continuous lognormal distribution ($N\sim10^{6}$ diameters) and particle numbers up to $N\approx5.6\times10^{6}$ for power-law distributions, with the densest packings reaching $φ\simeq0.87$, each completed in minutes to hours on a multicore machine. Across truncated-lognormal, truncated-power-law, and Weibull distributions, the resulting $φ$ reproduces trends such as the locations of peaks and knees with distribution shape and $S$ found in prior numerical results and in the parameter-free Farr--Groot prediction, with a remaining offset typically $0.005$--$0.01$. Additionally, results are commensurate with multimodal packing densities measured in vibrated-bed experiments. The code and the complete per-case census behind every figure are released with the paper.
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@article{desmond2026random,
title = {Random close packing at extreme size ratios with an Adam-based inflation protocol},
author = {Kenneth Desmond},
year = {2026},
abstract = {We present \textbackslash{}texttt\{rcpgenerator\}, an openly available code for generating \$d\$-dimensional dense, disordered, non-overlapping close packings from an arbitrary prescribed list of particle diameters. The method adapts the Clarke--Wiley inflation protocol, but instead uses the Adam optimizer to relax the particle configuration. Typically, particle coordinates are advanced with a single, global step size, which must shrink as the size ratio \$S\textbackslash{}equiv D\_\{\textbackslash{}max\}/D\_\{\textbackslash{}min\}\$ grows, generally stalling the op},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12235},
keywords = {cond-mat.soft},
eprint = {2608.12235},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}
{}