Necessary conditions on realizable two-point correlation functions of random media

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6923-6928

  Torquato, S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA;

CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

CORRELATION METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 33750316398     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie058082t     Document Type: Article

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