Modeling Heterogeneous Materials via Two-Point Correlation Functions: I. Basic Principles

Details Modeling Heterogeneous Materials via Two-Point Correlation Functions: I. Basic Principles Modeling Heterogeneous Materials via Two-Point Correlation Functions: I. Basic Principles

2007-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/0705.2434v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

37 pages, 26 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031110

Heterogeneous materials abound in nature and man-made situations. Examples include porous media, biological materials, and composite materials. Diverse and interesting properties exhibited by these materials result from their complex microstructures, which also make it difficult to model the materials. In this first part of a series of two papers, we collect the known necessary conditions on the standard two-point correlation function S2(r) and formulate a new conjecture. In particular, we argue that given a complete two-point correlation function space, S2(r) of any statistically homogeneous material can be expressed through a map on a selected set of bases of the function space. We provide new examples of realizable two-point correlation functions and suggest a set of analytical basis functions. Moreover, we devise an efficient and isotropy- preserving construction algorithm, namely, the Lattice-Point algorithm to generate realizations of materials from their two- point correlation functions based on the Yeong-Torquato technique. Subsequent analysis can be performed on the generated images to obtain desired macroscopic properties. These developments are integrated here into a general scheme that enables one to model and categorize heterogeneous materials via two-point correlation functions.

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