Dirichlet tessellations

As an alternative to the traditional physico-geometrical models, Korobov explored a new class of discrete models, based on Dirichlet tessellations, whose application is illustrated by the thermal decomposition of NH4HCO3 [45]. Korobov considered the thermal decomposition of ammonium hydrogen carbonate as an example of a discrete kinetic model of reactions in crystals, which simultaneously play the roles of reactant and reaction medium [46]. 

A. Bowyer. Computing Dirichlet tesselations. Comp. /., 24 162-166, 1981. One of the first papers on the Delaunay triangulation in 3-space. 

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