S. Torquato Random Heterogeneous Materials Microstructure and Macroscopic Properties

Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Vol. 16

▶ A unified approach of treating the microstructure and effective properties of heterogeneous media ▶ Written in an accessible style ▶ Sufficiently well-contained for the non-expert wishing to learn the field

The study of random heterogeneous materials is an exciting and rapidly growing multidisciplinary endeavor. This field demands a unified rigorous means of characterizing 1st ed. 2001. Corr. 2nd printing 2001, XXI, the microstructures and macroscopic properties of the widely diverse types of 703 p. 111 illus. heterogeneous materials that abound in and synthetic products. This book is the first of its kind to provide such an approach. Emphasis is placed on foundational theoretical methods that can simultaneously yield results of practical utility. Printed book The first part of the book deals with the quantitive characterization of the microstructure Hardcover of heterogeneous materials. The second part of the book treats a wide variety of ▶ 129,99 € | £113.00 | $169.00 macroscopic transport, electromagnetic, mechanical, and chemical properties of ▶ *139,09 € (D) | 142,99 € (A) | CHF 167.16 heterogeneous materials and describes how they are linked to the microstructure of model and real materials. Contemporary topics covered include the eBook of many-partical systems, the canonical n-point correlation function, percolation theory, computer-simulation methods, image analyses and reconstructions of real materials, Available from your bookstore or homogenization theory, exact property predictions, variational bounds, expansion ▶ springer.com/shop techniques, and cross property relations.

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Salvatore Torquato is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and in the Materials Institute at Princeton University. He also holds affiliated appointments at Princeton University in applied and Computational Mathematics Program and in Chemical Engineering. Among other honors, he was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 1998. He has published over two hundred journal articles across a variety of scientific disciplines.

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