Analytical approximation of the percolation threshold for overlapping ellipsoids of revolution

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

Volumn 460, Issue 2048, 2004, Pages 2353-2380

  Yi, Y B ^a   Sastry, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic; Cluster; Ellipsoid; Percolation; Sensors; Series expansion

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; SENSOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 4344589066     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2004.1279     Document Type: Article

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