ON THE TWO-POINT CORRELATION FUNCTION FOR DISPERSIONS OF NONOVERLAPPING SPHERES
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences
- Vol. 8 (2) , 359-377
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218202598000159
Abstract
Random dispersions of spheres are useful and appropriate models for a wide class of particulate random materials. They can be described in two equivalent and alternative ways — either by the multipoint moments of the characteristic function of the region, occupied by the spheres, or by the probability densities of the spheres' centers. On the "two-point" level, a simple and convenient integral formula is derived which interconnects the radial distribution function of the spheres with the two-point correlation of the said characteristic function. As one of the possible applications of the formula, the behavior of the correlation function near the origin is studied in more detail and related to the behavior of the radial distribution function at the "touching" separation of the spheres.Keywords
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