We study in this paper the scaling and statistical properties of the ac conductivity of thin metal-dielectric films in different regions of the loss in metallic components and particularly in the limit of vanishing loss. We model the system by a 2D RL − C network and calculate the effective conductivity by using a real space renormalization group method. It is found that the real conductivity s...

BACKGROUND Few finite element models (FEM) have been developed to describe the electric field, specific absorption rate (SAR), and the temperature distribution surrounding hepatic radiofrequency ablation probes. To date, a coupled finite element model that accounts for the temperature-dependent electrical conductivity changes has not been developed for ablation type devices. While it is widely ...

We discuss the thermal conductivity of a chain of coupled rotators, showing that it is the first example of a 1D nonlinear lattice exhibiting normal transport properties in the absence of an on-site potential. Numerical estimates obtained by simulating a chain in contact with two thermal baths at different temperatures are found to be consistent with those based on linear response theory. The d...

Computational study of thermal conductivity of interconnected networks of bundles in carbon nanotube (CNT) films reveals a strong effect of the finite thermal conductivity kT of individual nanotubes on the conductivity k of the CNT materials. The physical origin of this effect is explained in a theoretical analysis of systems composed of straight randomly dispersed CNTs. An analytical equation ...

Probe branes with finite worldvolume electric flux in the background created by a stack of Dp branes describe holographically strongly interacting fundamental matter at finite density. We identify two quantities whose leading low temperature behavior is independent of the dimensionality of the probe branes: specific heat and DC conductivity. This behavior can be inferred from the dynamics of th...

Probe branes with finite worldvolume electric flux in the background created by a stack of Dp branes describe holographically strongly interacting fundamental matter at finite density. We identify two quantities whose leading low temperature behavior is independent of the dimensionality of the probe branes: specific heat and DC conductivity. This behavior can be inferred from the dynamics of th...

In this paper, I explore the solution of the contaminant transport problem over a random conductivity field. First, I generate a random, correlated conductivity field by convolving independent, uniformly distributed random variables with the identity function. I use finite differences to discretize the diffusion equation to solve for the steady-state pressure gradient using Backward Euler. This...