scholarly journals Basicsums: A Python package for computing structural sums and the effective conductivity of random composites

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (39) ◽  
pp. 1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Nawalaniec
Author(s):  
Wojciech Nawalaniec

The main goal of this paper is to present the application of structural sums, mathematical objects originating from the computational materials science, in construction of a feature space vector of two-dimensional random composites simulated by distributions of non-overlapping discs on the plane. Construction of the feature vector enables the immediate application of machine learning tools and data analysis techniques to random structures. In order to present the accuracy and the potential of structural sums as geometry descriptors, we apply them to classification problems comprising composites with circular inclusions as well as composites with shapes formed by discs. As an application, we perform the analysis of different models of composites in order to formulate the irregularity measure of random structures. We also visualize the relationship between the effective conductivity of two-dimensional composites and the geometry of inclusions.


We deal with the effective conductivity m = m(z) of two phase, ordered or disordered mixtures consisting of particles of material of conductivity z inserted in a matrix of conductivity 1. We focus on finding bounds on the set of values of z for which the function m is singular or vanishes, and we apply our results to the estimation of the effective conductivity of high contrast mixtures ( z = 0 or z = ∞). We find that the zeroes and singularities of the function m lie on an interval of the negative real axis, which depends on the shape of the particles and the interparticle distances. Our results agree with previous numerical calculations for periodic arrays of spheres. In some cases we show that our estimates are optimal. We apply our results about the zeroes and singularities together with the complex variable method, and find bounds on the effective conductivity of matrix-particle random composites. These bounds give good estimations even in cases of high contrast, and, in many cases, they improve substantially over the bounds obtained by other methods, for the same types of high contrast mixtures.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2161
Author(s):  
Wojciech Nawalaniec ◽  
Katarzyna Necka ◽  
Vladimir Mityushev

The theory of structural approximations is extended to two-dimensional double periodic structures and applied to determination of the effective conductivity of densely packed disks. Statistical simulations of non-overlapping disks with the different degrees of clusterization are considered. The obtained results shows that the distribution of inclusions in a composite, as an amount of geometrical information, remains in the discrete corresponding Voronoi tessellation, hence, precisely determines the effective conductivity for random composites.


2009 ◽  
Vol E92-C (12) ◽  
pp. 1504-1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Huong TRAN ◽  
Yuanfeng SHE ◽  
Jiro HIROKAWA ◽  
Kimio SAKURAI ◽  
Yoshinori KOGAMI ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
ELENA CHERKAEV ◽  
MINWOO KIM ◽  
MIKYOUNG LIM

The Neumann–Poincaré (NP) operator, a singular integral operator on the boundary of a domain, naturally appears when one solves a conductivity transmission problem via the boundary integral formulation. Recently, a series expression of the NP operator was developed in two dimensions based on geometric function theory [34]. In this paper, we investigate geometric properties of composite materials using this series expansion. In particular, we obtain explicit formulas for the polarisation tensor and the effective conductivity for an inclusion or a periodic array of inclusions of arbitrary shape with extremal conductivity, in terms of the associated exterior conformal mapping. Also, we observe by numerical computations that the spectrum of the NP operator has a monotonic behaviour with respect to the shape deformation of the inclusion. Additionally, we derive inequality relations of the coefficients of the Riemann mapping of an arbitrary Lipschitz domain using the properties of the polarisation tensor corresponding to the domain.


2020 ◽  
pp. 100443
Author(s):  
M. Chalela ◽  
E. Sillero ◽  
L. Pereyra ◽  
M.A. Garcia ◽  
J.B. Cabral ◽  
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