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Duality and Effective Conductivity of Random Two-Phase Flat Systems

2004/03/10 by S. A. Bulgadaev
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech

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published as Phys.Lett. A 313 (2003) 106 - 111 · 9 pages, 1 figure, Latex2e

arxiv created 2004/03/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The possible functional forms of the effective conductivity sigmae of the randomly inhomogeneous two-phase systems at arbitrary values of concentrations are discussed. Two explicit approximate expressions for effective conductivity are found using a duality relation, a series expansion of sigmae in the inhomogeneity parameter z and some additional conjectures about functional form of sigmae. They differ from the effective medium approximation, satisfy all necessary requirements and reproduce the known formulas for sigmae in weakly inhomogeneous case. This can signify also that sigmae of the two-phase randomly inhomogeneous systems may be a nonuniversal function, depending on some details of the structure of the random inhomogeneities.

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