Chord distribution functions of three-dimensional random media: Approximate first-passage times of Gaussian processes

Details Chord distribution functions of three-dimensional random media: Approximate first-passage times of Gaussian processes Chord distribution functions of three-dimensional random media: Approximate first-passage times of Gaussian processes

1999-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9901315v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

12 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.59.4953

The main result of this paper is a semi-analytic approximation for the chord distribution functions of three-dimensional models of microstructure derived from Gaussian random fields. In the simplest case the chord functions are equivalent to a standard first-passage time problem, i.e., the probability density governing the time taken by a Gaussian random process to first exceed a threshold. We obtain an approximation based on the assumption that successive chords are independent. The result is a generalization of the independent interval approximation recently used to determine the exponent of persistence time decay in coarsening. The approximation is easily extended to more general models based on the intersection and union sets of models generated from the iso-surfaces of random fields. The chord distribution functions play an important role in the characterization of random composite and porous materials. Our results are compared with experimental data obtained from a three-dimensional image of a porous Fontainebleau sandstone and a two-dimensional image of a tungsten-silver composite alloy.

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