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Effective conductance of a high-contrast, random-structure composite. Numerical simulation

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This paper considers a high-contrast, two-component composite of random structure, for whose simulation a two-dimensional network model is used. The dependence of the medium conductance on the volume content and composition of the filler that is characteristic of percolation theory has been obtained: up to some volume content, the effective conductance is small and then it grows rapidly. The results are based on statistical modeling (solving a large number of problems at various random distributions of inclusions and with subsequent statistical processing).

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 6, pp. 170–177, November–December, 2005.

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Kolpakov, A.G. Effective conductance of a high-contrast, random-structure composite. Numerical simulation. J Eng Phys Thermophys 78, 1222–1230 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-006-0056-7

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