TitleThe Mathematics and Physics of Disordered Media: Percolation, Random Walk, Modeling, and Simulation [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Workshop held at the IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis February 13-19, 1983 / edited by B. D. Hughes, B. W. Ninham
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1983
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0073254
Descript VIII, 432 p. online resource

CONTENT

Random processes and random systems: An introduction -- On the wedding of certain dynamical processes in disordered complex materials to the theory of stable (Lรฉvy) 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


SUBJECT

  1. Physics
  2. Probabilities
  3. Statistical physics
  4. Dynamical systems
  5. Physics
  6. Theoretical
  7. Mathematical and Computational Physics
  8. Statistical Physics
  9. Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  10. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes