On the correlation functions of two-phase random media and related problems

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1983, 1999, Pages 1049-1066

  Markov, Konstantin Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Effective properties; Multipoint correlations; Positive definiteness; Random inhomogeneous media; Variational estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746459354     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0348     Document Type: Article

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