This is Volume 1 of a two-volume set offering a comprehensive treatment of the
fundamentals and applications of the boundary element method BEM in thermo-fluids …

A review of classical percolation theory is presented, with an emphasis on novel
applications to statistical topography, turbulent diffusion, and heterogeneous media …

This is a thoroughly revised version of the original book published in 1986. About half of the
contents of the previous version remain essentially unchanged, and one quarter has been …

Martensites are crystalline solids that display dazzling patterns at the microscopic scales.
This microstructure gives rise to unusual macroscopic properties like the shape-memory …

The purpose of the present article is to review recent advances made in the determination
and calculation of improved bounds on the effective properties of random heterogeneous …

The effective dielectric function ε e for a medium of anisotropic inclusions embedded in an
isotropic host is calculated using the Maxwell Garnett approximation. For uniaxial inclusions …

The design of periodic microstructural composite materials to achieve specific properties has
been a major area of interest in material research. Tailoring different physical properties by …

Composite materials are ideally suited to achieve multifunctionality since the best features of
different materials can be combined to form a new material that has a broad spectrum of …

This paper studies coherent, energy-minimizing mixtures of two linearly elastic phases with
identical elastic moduli. We derive a formula for the “relaxed” or “macroscopic” energy of the …

We review recent theoretical progress in understanding physical processes of composite
effects on enhanced third-order nonlinear optical responses of various kinds of the recently …