Transport and conduction in random systems

DOI10.1016/0020-7225(84)90109-5MaRDI QIDQ1058326zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barry D. Hughes, Muhammad Sahimi, L. E. Scriven, H. Ted Davis

Publication date 1984

Published in International Journal of Engineering Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7225(84)90109-5

zbMATH Keywords

class of disordered integrodifference equationsdisorder in transport propertieseffective medium approximationgeneralized master equationsmacroscopic propertiesmemory effectsmicroscopically disordered systemperiodic latticesmoothing out spatial disordertime- correlationtime-dependent problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random materials and composite materials (74A40) Micromechanical theories (74A60) Micromechanics of solids (74M25) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Review text

We discuss the use of the effective medium approximation (EMA) for the calculation of the macroscopic properties of a microscopically disordered system. This technique has a long history for static problems, but has only recently been applied to time-dependent problems. Our discussion is restricted, for simplicity, to the case of a periodic lattice with disorder in transport properties at the level of individual bonds. We review recent applications of the EMA to disordered rate equations (master equations) and show how the basic formalism extends to a class of disordered integrodifference equations (generalized master equations) and to transport processes in which loss of the mobile species from the system is possible. In each case the macroscopic system properties, obtained by smoothing out spatial disorder, exhibit time-correlation or memory effects.

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