Macroscopic Properties of Disordered Media

Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Courant Institute, June 1–3, 1981

Electromagnetic propagation in mixed media.
Resonances in the bulk properties of composite media — theory and applications.
Elastic waves in fluid-saturated porous media.
Biot's poroelasticity equations by homogenization.
Approximations of Brinkman type.
Topology, geometry, and physical properties of porous rocks.
Wave propagation in bubbly liquids.
Elastodynamics of porous media.
Bounds for the effective conductivity of random media.
Structural design optimization, homogenization and relaxation of variational problems.
Coherent medium approach to hopping conduction.
Nonlinear evolution equations with rapidly oscillating initial data.
A comparison of two methods for deriving bounds on the effective conductivity of composites.
Fluctuation corrections to the mean field description of a nonuniform fluid.
Fingering in porous media.
On the effective thermal conductivity and permeability of regular arrays of spheres.
Dielectric and acoustic response of rocks.
Effective dielectric function of composite media.
Macroscopic and microscopic fields in electron and atom transport.
Propagation and attenuation in composite media.
Frequency dependent dielectric constants of discrete random media.
A variational method to find effective coefficients for periodic media. A comparison with standard homogenization.
Effective medium approximation for diffusion on random networks.