Voro++: a three-dimensional Voronoi cell library in C++

Technical Report · Thu Jan 15 04:00:00 EST 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/946741· OSTI ID:946741

Rycroft, Chris

Voro++ is a free software library for the computation of three dimensional Voronoi cells. It is primarily designed for applications in physics and materials science, where the Voronoi tessellation can be a useful tool in the analysis of densely-packed particle systems, such as granular materials or glasses. The software comprises of several C++ classes that can be modified and incorporated into other programs. A command-line utility is also provided that can use most features of the code. Voro++ makes use of a direct cell-by-cell construction, which is particularly suited to handling special boundary conditions and walls. It employs algorithms which are tolerant for numerical precision errors, and it has been successfully employed on very large particle systems.

• Research Organization: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: Computational Research Division
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 946741
• Report Number(s): LBNL-1432E
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
ACCURACY
ALGORITHMS
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
CONSTRUCTION
GRANULAR MATERIALS
PHYSICS
Voronoi tessellation
computational geometry