AuthorSahimi, Muhammad. author
TitleHeterogeneous Materials I [electronic resource] : Linear Transport and Optical Properties / by Muhammad Sahimi
ImprintNew York, NY : Springer New York, 2003
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97507
Descript XX, 692 p. 145 illus. online resource

SUMMARY

This book describes and discusses the properties of heterogeneous materials. The properties considered include the conductivity (thermal, electrical, magnetic), elastic moduli, dielectrical constant, optical properties, mechanical fracture, and electrical and dielectrical breakdown properties. Both linear and nonlinear properties are considered. The nonlinear properties include those with constitutive nonlinearities as well as threshold nonlinearities, such as brittle fracture and dielectric breakdown. A main goal of this book is to compare two fundamental approaches to describing and predicting materials properties, namely, the continuum mechanics approach and those based on the discrete models. The latter models include the lattice models and the atomistic approaches. The book provides comprehensive and up-to-date theoretical and computer simulation analysis of materials properties. Typical experimental methods for measuring all of these properties are outlined, and comparison is made between the experimental data and the theoretical predictions. Volume I covers linear properties, while volume II considers nonlinear and fracture and breakdown properties, as well as atomistic modeling. This multidisciplinary book will appeal to applied physicists, materials scientists, chemical and mechanical engineers, chemists, and applied mathematicians. Muhammad Sahimi is Professor and Chairman of Chemical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences in Zanjan, Iran. His current research interests include transport and mechanical properties of heterogeneous materials: flow, diffusion and reaction in porous media, and large-scale scientific complications. Among his honors are the Alexander von Humbodt Foundation Research Award, and the Kapitza Gold Medal


CONTENT

Characterization and Modelling of the Morphology -- Characterization of Connectivity and Clustering -- Characterization and Modelling of the Morphology -- Linear Transport and Optical Properties -- Effective Conductivity, Dielectric Constant and Optical Properties: The Continuum Approach -- Effective Conductivity and Dielectric Constant: The Discrete Approach -- Frequency-Dependent Properties: The Discrete Approach -- Rigidity and Elastic Properties: The Continuum Approach -- Rigidity and Elastic Properties: The Discrete Approach -- Rigidity and Elastic Properties of Network Glasses, Prolymers, and Composite Solids: the Discrete Approach


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Chemistry
  3. Physical and theoretical
  4. Applied mathematics
  5. Engineering mathematics
  6. Continuum physics
  7. Statistical physics
  8. Dynamical systems
  9. Materials science
  10. Mathematics
  11. Applications of Mathematics
  12. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
  13. Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
  14. Statistical Physics
  15. Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  16. Classical Continuum Physics