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On homogenized conductivity and fractal structure in a high contrast continuum percolation model

Mathematical Physics 2014-04-28 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks math.MP Probability

Abstract

In the previous article (S. Matsutani and Y. Shimosako and Y. Wang, Physica A \bf{391} (2012) 5802-5809) we numerically investigated an electric potential problem with high contrast local conductivities (γ0\gamma_0 and γ1\gamma_1, 0<γ0γ10<\gamma_0 \ll \gamma_1) for a two-dimensional continuum percolation model (CPM). As numerical results, we showed there that the equipotential curves exhibit the fractal structure around the threshold pcp_c and gave an approximated curve representing a relation between the homogenized conductivity and the volume fraction pp over [pc,1][p_c,1]. In this article, using the duality of the conductivities and the quasi-harmonic properties, we re-investigate these topics to improve these results. We show that at γ00\gamma_0\to0, the quasi-harmonic potential problem in CPM is quasiconformally equivalent to a random slit problem, which leads us to an observation between the conformal property and the fractal structure at the threshold. Further we extend the domain [pc,1][p_c,1] of the approximated curve to [0,1][0,1] based on the these results, which is partially generalized to three dimensional case. These curves represent well the numerical results of the conductivities.

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@article{arxiv.1311.6843,
  title  = {On homogenized conductivity and fractal structure in a high contrast continuum percolation model},
  author = {Shigeki Matsutani and Yoshiyuki Shimosako},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6843},
  year   = {2014}
}

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