TY - JOUR
T1 - Homogenisation of similarly oriented, metallic, ellipsoidal inclusions using the bilocally approximated strong-property-fluctuation theory
AU - Mackay, Tom G.
AU - Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
AU - Weiglhofer, Werner S.
N1 - Funding Information:
TGM is supported by The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2001/9/15
Y1 - 2001/9/15
N2 - The homogenisation of a two-phase composite medium comprising metallic, ellipsoidal inclusions embedded in a non-conducting host medium is carried out via the bilocally approximated strong-property-fluctuation theory. Comparison is made against the results obtained via the Bruggeman formalism. The correlated actions of neighbouring inclusions result in a considerable mitigation of the percolation threshold anisotropy due to inclusion shape alone. Furthermore, the choice of covariance function may only have a secondary influence in relation to the effects of the correlation length.
AB - The homogenisation of a two-phase composite medium comprising metallic, ellipsoidal inclusions embedded in a non-conducting host medium is carried out via the bilocally approximated strong-property-fluctuation theory. Comparison is made against the results obtained via the Bruggeman formalism. The correlated actions of neighbouring inclusions result in a considerable mitigation of the percolation threshold anisotropy due to inclusion shape alone. Furthermore, the choice of covariance function may only have a secondary influence in relation to the effects of the correlation length.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01433-X
DO - 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01433-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035884678
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 197
SP - 89
EP - 95
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 1-3
ER -