English Explanatory Dictionary

Weaire-Phelan structure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A three-dimensional structure representing an idealized foam of equal-sized bubbles, with two different shapes.

Word forms

Weaire-Phelan structure Weaire-Phelan structures

Etymology

Named after Denis Weaire and Robert Phelan, who in 1993 found that this structure was a better solution to the Kelvin problem of tiling space by equal-volume cells of minimum surface area than the previous best-known solution, the Kelvin structure.

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