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Models of disordered media: Some new results, including some new connections between composite-media, fluid-state, and random-flight theories

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Some new theoretical results on the microstructure of models of two-phase disordered media are given, as well as the new quantitative bounds on the thermal conductivity that follow for one such model (randomly centered spherical inclusions). A second set of results is then given for random flights, including random flights with hit expectancy prescribed in a unit ball around the flight origin. Finally, some interesting correspondences are demonstrated, via the Ornstein-Zernike equation, between random-flight results, liquid-state results and percolation-theory results.

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  • Spherical Model
  • Spherical Inclusion
  • Centered Sphere
  • Thermal Conductivity Data
  • Random Flight

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Stell, G. (1983). Models of disordered media: Some new results, including some new connections between composite-media, fluid-state, and random-flight theories. In: Hughes, B.D., Ninham, B.W. (eds) The Mathematics and Physics of Disordered Media: Percolation, Random Walk, Modeling, and Simulation. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1035. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0073267

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