Industry/University Cooperative Research Project: Effect of Microstructure on Conduction, Diffusion and Flow in Disordered Composite Media

采用理论和计算机模拟技术对复合介质和多孔介质的体输运特性进行了研究。感兴趣的性质包括与流过固定包裹体相关的扩散系数，复合材料和多孔介质的导热性，以及多孔介质的流体渗透率。此外，这里采用的许多一般技术和结果也适用于确定复合材料和多孔介质的弹性模量的相关问题。期望预测广泛的微观结构和大范围的相性质值和体积分数的有效性质。

The determination of the bulk transport properties of composite and porous media is studied using both theoretical and computer-simulation techniques. Properties of interest include the diffusion coefficient associated with flow past fixed inclusions, thermal conductivity of composite and porous media, and the fluid permeability of porous media. Moreover, many of the general techniques and results employed here apply as well to the related problem of determining the elastic moduli of composite and porous media. It is desired to predict the effective properties for a broad class of microstructures and for a wide range of phase property values and volume fractions.