On the critical density for continuum percolation of spheres of variable radii

被引:18
作者
Dhar, D
机构
[1] Theoretical Physics Group, Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400 005, Homi Bhabha Road
来源
PHYSICA A | 1997年 / 242卷 / 3-4期
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10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00287-2
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We propose an approximate formula to determine the critical percolation density for continuum percolation of non-interacting spheres when the radii of spheres are also random variables. We conjecture that this gives a strict lower bound to the critical density for all distributions of radii.
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页码:341 / 346
页数:6
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