The Mathematics and Physics of Disordered Media

Percolation, Random Walk, Modeling,and Simulation. Proceedings of a Workshop held at the IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 13-19, 1983
1983
ISBN: 978-3-540-12707-9
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 1035, 432 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1350 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Mathematics

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Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ninham, B. W.

Hughes, B.D.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Stochastische Prozesse
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Random processes and random systems: An introduction.- On the wedding of certain dynamical processes in disordered complex materials to the theory of stable (Lévy) distribution functions.- Fractal stochastic processes: Clusters and intermittancies.- Percolation and fractal properties of thin gold films.- Percolation and capillary fluid displacement.- Recent progress and current puzzles in percolation.- Markov fields, correlated percolation, and the Ising model.- Directionality effects in percolation.- Percolation and related systems in equilibrium statistical mechanics.- Branched polymers, polymer gels and percolation theory.- Critical probabilities in percolation models.- Critical exponents and thresholds for percolation and conduction.- Models of disordered media: Some new results, including some new connections between composite-media, fluid-state, and random-flight theories.- Variational bounds on the diffusive and hydrodynamic permeabilities of randomly perforated sheets.- Diffusions and random walks in random media.- Waves in disordered media.- Microscopic origins of stochastic crack growth.