Effective transport properties of conformal Voronoi-bounded columns via recurrent boundary element expansions

Abstract

Effective transport properties of heterogeneous structures are predicted by geometric microstructural parameters, but these can be difficult to calculate. Here, a boundary element code with a recurrent series method accurately and efficiently determines the high order parameters of polygonal and conformal prisms in regular two-dimensional lattices and Voronoi tessellations (VT). This reveals that proximity to simpler estimates is associated with: centroidal VT (cf random VT), compactness, and VT structures (cf similarly compact semi-regular lattices). An error in previously reported values for triangular lattices is noted.

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