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
Published on 1. December 1983
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 432 pages
978-3-540-12707-9 (ISBN)
Description
Random processes and random systems: An introduction.- On the wedding of certain dynamical processes in disordered complex materials to the theory of stable (L¿) 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.
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Series
Edition
1983 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 432 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
663 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-12707-9 (9783540127079)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0073254
Schweitzer Classification
Content
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.