Effective-medium formulas

Using the effective medium formula of Looyenga [134] it was possible to calculate the dielectric constant for the dispersed PAni as... 

Approach (iii) listed above refers to the use of effective medium theory (Kirkpatrick, 1973 Koplik, 1982 Levine and Cuthiell, 1986) for calculating certain average flow properties in idealised porous media models—usually simple networks. Cannella et al (1988) have recently applied this approach to the flow of power law fluids through networks of capillaries. They use this method to derive an expression for the apparent viscosity of the polymer in the porous medium which has the same overall form as the capillary bundle expression (e.g. Equation 6.18). They then adjusted the parameters in the effective medium formula in order to match their particular form of the capillary bundle formula with C = 6 (Equation 6.18). The values of the effective medium parameters are physically interpretable, and Cannella et al (1988) deduced from these that the effective radius for the flow of a power law fluid is larger than that for the flow of a Newtonian fluid. They also... 

The effective medium theory consists in considering the real medium, which is quite complex, as a fictitious model medium (the effective medium) of identical properties. Bruggeman [29] had proposed a relation linking the dielectric permittivity of the medium to the volumetric proportions of each component of the medium, including the air through the porosity of the powder mixture. This formula has been rearranged under a symmetrical form by Landauer (see Eq. (8), where e, is the permittivity of powder / at a dense state, em is the permittivity of the mixture and Pi the volumetric proportion of powder / ) and cited by Guillot [30] as one of the most powerful model. 

The effective medium model has been described in [84,86]. It constitutes an isolated spherical insertion (component 1) in a continuous medium with effective (to be determined) properties. Thus, the following formula was obtained ... 

The Calculation Results. The calculations were made for a two-component medium. Calculations were executed for a two-component 3D composite with random structure. First we shall consider a comparison of the outcome for the effective conductivity calculated by means of the iterative method with the calculation using formulas (240) obtained on the basis of the effective medium theory model. 

Figure 30 shows a comparison between the results for effective conductivity obtained by means of the iterative method (continuous) and a calculation using the formula (240) obtained by the effective medium theory model (dashed). The figure compares the results of the calculation of the effective conductivity using the iteration method (the continuous line) to the calculation by formula (240) (the dotted line) obtained from the effective medium model. The comparison... 

Webman and Jortner [68] used the following formulas obtained by combining the formulas of effective medium theory with the formulas of percolation theory to calculate the effective Hall properties of a composite ... 

The calculations of elastic properties according to the iteration procedure allow one to conclude that these calculations essentially agree with (a) the results of the percolation theory at K2/K1 —> 0 (gL2 / (J. 1 —> 0) and (b) the results according to effective medium held formulae at K2/K1 > 10 2 (Fig. 50). 

Figure 50. Comparison of the calculation elastic properties of the according to the iteration procedure (continuous) and according to formulae effective medium field (dotted line).

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For the calculations of the optical properties of polymer films with embedded nanoparticles, two routes can be selected. In the exact route, the extinction cross sections Cact(v) of single particles are calculated. The calculated extinction spectra for single particles—or, better, a summation of various excitation spectra for a particle assembly—can be compared with the experimental spectra of the embedded nanoparticles. In the statistic route, an effective dielectric function e(v) is calculated from the dielectric function of the metal e(T) and of the polymer material po(v) by using a mixing formula, the so-called effective medium theory. The optical extinction spectra calculated from the effective dielectric functions by using the Fresnel formulas can be compared with the experimental spectra. 

In the statistic route, an effechve dielectric function e(v) is calculated from the dielectric funchon of the metal Enie(v) and the of polymer material po(v) by using a formula, the effective medium theory. The most general effective medium theory is the Bergman theory in which the nanostructure of the composite material can be considered by a spectral density function. The Bergman theory includes the soluhons from the Bruggeman theory and the Maxwell Garnett theory for spherical, parallel-oriented, and random-oriented ellipsoidal parhcles. 

This formula is known as the Maxwell-Gamett effective medium (MGEM) expression. Note that it can be derived under various assumptions [175, 186, 187]. From Eq. (1.121), the Maxwell-Gamett (MG) dielectric function of the composite layer is expressed as... 

Equation (2b) is a scaling law depicting the conductive behavior in the vicinity of the percolation threshold, the value of the critical exponent y being 1.6 to within 0.2. Equation (2c) expresses the composite conductivity dependence upon conductor concentration beyond the percolation threshold. Equation (2c) is a simplified form, valid in the case of conductor-insulator mixtures, of a more general equation derived in different ways by Bruggeman (70), Bottcher (71) and Landauer (72) and known as the Effective Medium Theory, (E.M.T.), formula ... 

The most often applied effective medium model is the Bruggeman formula [11]... 

The various methods used by researchers to predict the permittivity of the mixture from the permittivity of the components are often broadly divided into the following bounding methods, effective medium approximation, percolation theory and numerical simulation. The various formulas obtained using many of these methods have been reviewed in a number of articles [2, 12, 15]. 

Several authors have derived formula for dielectric permittivity of a two component mixture from differential analysis. Most of them considered the excess polarization due to a small sphere introduced to the effective medium where the volume of the sphere can become infinitesimal enabling establishment of a differential equation for the effective permittivity of the mixture [30], The particular solutions obtained for a 3D case by three of the most notable authors contain a fractional power of a third. These are Looyenga formula [31], Bruggeman [29] and Hanai formula [32] and formula by Sen et al. [33] given in equations 9.25, 9.26 and 9.27, respectively. 

The main issue in the effective-medium approximations is to relate the polarizability a. to the relative permittivity r, where = i/ s, and E[ is the relative permittivity of the inclusion. For spherical particles and at frequencies for which the inclusions can be considered very small, the Maxwell-Garnett formula uses the relation... 

This formula may be useful as a rheological method for determining the thickness of adsorption layer, which is formed as a result of interaction between a dispersion medium and filler, by the results of measuring the t] versus q> dependence. Especially curious phenomena, connected with surface effects, arise when a mixture of fillers of different nature is used according to concentration of an active filler the introduction of the second (inert) filler can either increase or decrease the viscosity of a multicomponent system [35],... 

This formula is easily obtained from Eq. (30) if we use the summation rules relating the parameters of the effective oscillators with the dielectric properties of the medium.5... 

Consider continuous radiation with specific intensity I incident normally on a uniform slab with a source function 5 = Bv(Tex) unit volume per unit solid angle to the volume absorption coefficient Kp and is equal to the Planck function Bv of an excitation temperature Tcx obtained by force-fitting the ratio of upper to lower state atomic level populations to the Boltzmann formula, Eq. (3.4). For the interstellar medium at optical and UV wavelengths, effectively S = 0. 

The problem is to transform the pictorial view of molecules which is the daily companion of the chemist, to the numerical form required by programs, WITHOUT FORCING THE USER TO EFFECT THE TRANSLATION. We must not ask the chemist to do much more than identify the atoms, their connectivity, and some gross features of the stereochemistry. The structural formula is the medium by which such simple yet richly evocative information is conveyed. The structural formula does after all suffice for the chemist s work day to day. 

The next structural formula illustrates the course of a transesterification which proceeds smoothly and quickly if it is catalyzed with soluble aluminum salts found in the reaction medium, for instance, with basic aluminum stearate. In contrast to the conventionally catalyzed transesterifications by alkali alcoholate, the presence of free carboxylic acid does not have a negative effect. The catalyst... 

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