Vol 49, No 4 (1997)

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Rigorous bounds on the asymptotic expansions of effective transport coefficients of two-phase media

S. Tokarzewski, A. Gałka, G. Starushenko

Arch. Mech. 49 (4), 647-663, 1997

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Abstract


The fundamental inequalities for two-point Padé approximants corresponding to two asymptotic expansions of the effective transport coefficients λe(x)/λ1 , x21 - 1 have been derived, where λ1 and λ2 denote the transport moduli of the composite components. The inequalities achieved constitute the new bounds on the values of λe(x)/λ1 - the best with respect to the given number of coefficients of the asymptotic expansions of λe(x)/λ1 at x = 0 and x = ∞. For the particular cases, our two-point Padé bounds reduce to the classical estimations of λe(x)/λ1 available in literature [7, 9, 17, 24].

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