The mathematics and physics of disordered media : percolation, random walk, modeling, and simulation : proceedings of a workshop held at the IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 13-19, 1983 / B.D. Hughes and B.W. Ninham

Contents: Barry D. Hughes and Stephen Prager, Random processes and random systems: an introduction (pp. 1–108); Elliott W. Montroll and Michael F. Shlesinger, On the wedding of certain dynamical processes in disordered complex materials to the theory of stable (Lévy) distribution functions (pp. 109–137); Michael F. Shlesinger and Elliot W. Montroll, Fractal stochastic processes: clusters and intermittencies (pp. 138–152); R. F. Voss, R. B. Laibowitz and E. I. Alessandrini, Percolation and fractal properties of thin gold films (pp. 153–168); Joel Koplik, David Wilkinson and Jorge F. Willemsen, Percolation and capillary fluid displacement (pp. 169–183); Sidney Redner, Recent progress and current puzzles in percolation (pp. 184–200); J. M. Hammersley and G. Mazzarino, Markov fields, correlated percolation, and the Ising model (pp. 201–245); Sidney Redner, Directionality effects in percolation (pp. 246–259); J. W. Halley and C. Dasgupta, Percolation and related systems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (pp. 260–282); S. G. Whittington, Branched polymers, polymer gels and percolation theory (pp. 283–299); John C. Wierman, Critical probabilities in percolation models (pp. 300–313); Muhammad Sahimi, Critical exponents and thresholds for percolation and conduction (pp. 314–346); George Stell, Models of disordered media: some new results, including some new connections between composite-media, fluid-state, and random-flight theories (pp. 347–369); George H. Malone, Suk Youn Suh and Stephen Prager, Variational bounds on the diffusive and hydrodynamic permeabilities of randomly perforated sheets (pp. 370–390); George C. Papanicolaou, Diffusions and random walks in random media (pp. 391–399); Michael J. Stephen, Waves in disordered media (pp. 400–413); W. J. Pardee, W. L. Morris and B. N. Cox, Microscopic origins of stochastic crack growth (pp. 414–431).