Computer model solves the riddle of why lava sometimes forms into hexagons
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Dresden University of Technology in Germany has apparently solved the riddle of why lava sometimes forms into hexagonal towers as it cools. In their paper published in Physical Review Letters, the team describes how they put together a computer model that ultimately showed how such shapes can form.